Jan 11, 2018 - 11:00am
Power Electronics on the Cutting Edge: From Clean Energy to Wireless Powering of Vehicles
Dr. Khurram Afridi

Performance improvements in power electronics coupled with expanded use can lead to dramatic reductions in energy consumption and curtail greenhouse gas emissions. However, this will require power Learn More

Dec 6, 2017 - 1:30pm
Terahertz Imaging Components in Silicon Technology
Dr. Richard Al Hadi, University of California, Los Angeles

Integrated circuits in silicon technologies have been increasingly used for detecting and generating terahertz signals. Despite the limitations related to the devices speed and cutoff frequencies Learn More

Nov 21, 2017 - 2:00pm
Making Climate Commitments Possible Through Data Science for Sustainable Consumption
Dr. James Tull, ProductBio

According to GSA and EPA research, the acquisition of goods and services creates a carbon footprint nine times that of buildings and fleets put together. The procurement of environmentally Learn More

Nov 20, 2017 - 5:00pm
Silicon photonics at the RWTH Aachen: High-speed transceivers, group IV light sources and visible wavelength multi-color light engines
Jeremy Witzens

Overview of silicon photonics activities at the RWTH Aachen aimed at Learn More

Nov 17, 2017 - 11:00am
Manipulating Light, Matter and Energy with Plasmonic Nanotechnology
Yuebing Zheng

Surface plasmons, which are coherent oscillations of delocalized electrons at the interface of two materials, can concentrate and manipulate light at the nanoscale. We exploit unique optical, Learn More

Nov 16, 2017 - 11:00am
Seminar on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Communication System for Medical Applications and Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) Systems
Dr. David Nghiem

Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) and Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) technologies have become promising options for wireless medical applications. However, increased body loss at the ISM frequencies Learn More

Nov 16, 2017 - 11:00am
Optimal and Adaptive Active Sensing
Dr. Joseph R. Guerci

Advances in radio frequency (RF) solid state transmitters and high performance embedded computing (HPEC) have afforded a new Learn More

Nov 13, 2017 - 2:00pm
Non-Hermitian Photonics, Optics at an Exceptional Point
Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Central Florida (UCF)

In recent years, non-Hermitian degeneracies, also known as exceptional Learn More

Nov 9, 2017 - 5:30pm
Autonomous Systems – Past, Present, and Future
Doug Fronius, Northrop Grumman

The history of autonomous aircraft systems over the past 70 years is traced leading up to the technology that formed the foundation of current operational aircraft. The resulting architectures Learn More

Nov 6, 2017 - 10:00am
Acoustic Filter Technology & Design in Modern Cellphones
Perre-Alexandre Girard

The demand for bandwidth in cellphones is driving the industry toward complex RF front-ends that rely heavily on acoustic filters. The main purpose of this talk is to give an overview of filter Learn More