From Stanford NEMS

Current Group Members

Principal Investigator

Professor Roger T. Howe
Title	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Email	rthowe (at) stanford (dot) edu
Phone	(650) 723-8030
Address	Paul G. Allen Center for Integrated Systems 420 Via Palou Mall, Room 114 Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4070
Webpage	http://www.stanford.edu/group/howe/
Office Hours	Winter 2008 - Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:30

Consulting Professor

Professor Leslie A. Field
Title	Consulting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Email	lafield (at) stanford (dot) edu
Phone	(650) 823-2020
Address	Paul G. Allen Center for Integrated Systems 420 Via Palou Mall Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4070
Webpage	http://www.stanford.edu/people/lafield/
Teaching	Winter 2010 EE 292H "Engineering and Climate Change" http://coursework.stanford.edu/homepage/W11/W11-EE-292H-01.html Videos of class lectures available through SCPD: http://myvideos.stanford.edu/oce/seminars.aspx/

Research Associates

Dr. Igor Bargatin
Project	Microfabricated thermionic and photon-assisted thermionic energy converters
Education	PhD Physics 2008 Caltech MS Physics 2000 Moscow State University
Email	bargatin at stanford dot edu
Website	http://sites.google.com/site/igorbargatin/
Office	CIS 113

Dr. Chaitanya Gupta
Project	Electronic Spectroscopy at Solid-Liquid Interfaces for Biomolecule Detection; Chemical Oscillators
Education	PhD Chemical Engineering 2009 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MS Physics 2009 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MS Chemical Engineering 2007 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email	cgupta2 (at) stanford (dot) edu
Office	CIS 112

Graduate Students

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Uraib Aboudi
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2006
Email	uraib AT stanford DOT edu

Jeng-Wen (Peter) Chen
Project	Heterogeneous integration by parallel insertion
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University M.S. in Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2005 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2003
Email	jwpchen AT stanford DOT edu

Sharon Chou
Project	Microfabricated thermionic and photon-assisted thermionic energy converters
Education	PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2009 B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (minor in Biomedical Engineering), MIT, 2008
Email	cnorahs AT stanford DOT edu
Website	http://www.linkedin.com/in/cnorahs
Office	CIS 127X

Shane Crippen
Project	Magnetic Technologies for bioMEMS Applications
Education	PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University M.S. in Electrical Engineering, U of Washington, 1999 B.S. in Electrical Engineering Engineering, US Air Force Academy, 1998
Email	scrippen AT stanford DOT edu
Office	CIS 112b

Thomas Gwinn
Project	Microfabricated Thermionic Energy Converters and Plasmonic Lenses
Education	MS/PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University BS Electrical Engineering, Caltech, 2010
Email	tgwinn AT stanford DOT edu
Website	http://www.stanford.edu/~tgwinn/

Robert Hennessy
Project	"Zero-bias" MEMS
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2007 BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2005
Email	rhenn AT stanford DOT edu

Nathan Klejwa
Project	Rapid Microsystem Prototyping
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2005 BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2003
Website	Nathan Klejwa

Jae H. Lee
Project	(Photon Enhanced) SiC Thermionic Energy Converters for Solar Electricity Generation
Education	PhD Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2012 (exp.) MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2008 BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul Nationial University, 2003
Email	jaehlee AT stanford DOT edu
Webpage	Jae Hyung Lee

Wm. Scott Lee
Project	Nanoelectromechanical Relays
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, 2008 BS Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, 2008
Email	wslee AT stanford DOT edu
Webpage	http://www.stanford.edu/~wslee/

Jose Padovani
Project	Magnetic Technologies for BioMEMS Applications
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2011 BS Electrical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, 2008
Email	josep AT stanford DOT edu
Office	CIS 127X

Justin Snapp
Project	Microfabricated Ballistic Vacuum Electronics for Submillimeter-Wave and Terahertz Sources
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004 BS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004
Email	jsnapp AT stanford DOT edu
Webpage	http://www.stanford.edu/~jsnapp/
Office	CIS 127X

Kimberly Harrison
Project	Energy-Reversible Microelectromechanical Relay
Education	PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University MS Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2010 BS Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2007
Email	klharris AT stanford DOT edu
Office	CIS 127X

Chu-En (Kevin) Chang
Project	Multiwavelength CCD
Education	PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2010 BS Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2007
Email	cechang AT stanford DOT edu
Office	CIS 300X

Visiting Scholars

Kentaro (Ken) Iwami
Title	Visiting Assistant Professor - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Project	Microfabricated thermionic energy converter
Education	PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University 2008
Email	iwami AT stanford DOT edu
Office	CIS 113

Past Visiting Scholars

David Elata
Title	Visiting Associate Professor, on sabbatical from the Technion - Israel Institute of technology
Project	Nanoelectromechanical Switches, Dielectric Charging, Characterization of Electromechanical Actuators, Special Micromachining Processes
Dates	2006-2008
Email	elata (at) stanford (dot) edu
Webpage	http://mems.technion.ac.il/

Jerwei Hsieh
Project	Internal drive resonator, MOS transducer
Dates	2009
Education	Ph.D. in Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, 2002.
Email	jerwei1(at) stanford (dot) edu

Ashwin A. Seshia
Title	Visiting Associate Professor, on sabbatical from Cambridge University
Dates	2008 - 2009
Email	aas41 AT cam.ac.uk
Webpage	http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~aas41/

Jun-Bo Yoon
Title	Visiting Associate Professor, on sabbatical from KAIST
Dates	July 2008 - June 2009
Email	jbyoon (at) ee.kaist.ac.kr
Webpage	http://3dmems.kaist.ac.kr/

Past Research Associate

Dr. J Provine
Project	Nanophotonics and Surface Mode Optics; NEMS surface physics; NEMS Relays and Logic
Education	Ph D Electrical Engineering January 2005 Cornell Unversity MS Electrical Engineering Cornell University August 2003 MS Electrical Engineering Rice University May 1999 BSEE Rice University May 1999 BA Physics Rice University May 1998
Email	jprovine (at) stanford (dot) edu
Office	Allen 127X

Past Students

Rishi Kant
Thesis	Silicon Migration for MEMS applications, June 2009
Current Employer	UCSF Bioengineering

Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed
Thesis	Internal Electrostatic Transduction of Radio Frequency N/MEMS Resonators, December 2009
Current Employer	Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque

Katherine Tsai
Thesis	Magnetic Nanoparticle-Based Technologies for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications, August 2010
Current Employer	Harvey Mudd College

Roozbeh Parsa
Thesis	Nanoelectromechanical Relays for Low Power Applications, June 2011
Current Employer	Texas Instruments

Raja Jain
Thesis	Physics and technology of tensile-strained germanium for high-performance silicon-compatible optoelectronics, June 2011
Current Employer