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Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory

College of Engineering

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Principle Investigator

  

Gianluca (Gian) Piazza

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Nanofab 

Gianluca Piazza is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of the John and Claire Bertucci Nanotechnology Laboratory (a.k.a. the CMU Nanofabrication Facility). He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining CMU he was the Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on piezoelectric micro and nano electromechanicalsystems (M/NEMS) for RF wireless communication, optomechanics, chemical/biological detection, and mechanical computing. He also has a general interest in the areas of micro/nano fabrication techniques and integration of micro/nano devices with state-of-the-art electronics. He has more than 10 years of experience working with piezoelectric materials and devices. He holds several patents in the field of micromechanical resonators some of which have been acquired by industry. He received the IBM Young Faculty Award in 2006 and has won, with his students, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013, and at the IEEE Ultrasonic Symposium in 2012. He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (JMEMS).

E-mail: piazza AT ece.cmu.edu
Website: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/directory/bios/piazza-gianluca.html      

Jacqueline Chraska
chraska@ece.cmu.edu
Tel:412-268-3096
Fax:412-268-9687

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (2021)

Research interests: microwave and mm-waves microsystems for wireless frontends, integrated photonic systems, and hybrid microsystems based on the integration of MEMS devices with photonics for signal processing, sensing, and quantum applications

Email: ahmedhas AT Andrew.cmu.edu

 

Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2022)

M.S. in Mechatronics from the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany (2017)

B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, India (2012)

Research interests: M/NEMS/MOEMS, ultrasound transducers and their applications, phased arrays, multi-modal sensing

Email: harshvar AT andrew.cmu.edu


 

PhD Students

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. in Nanoscale Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute (2017)

Research Interests: Micro/Nano Fabrication Processes, RF MEMS, RF Front-Ends, Zero Power Sensors, Piezoelectric Films

E-mail: zschaffer AT cmu.edu                            

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

M.Sc. (2018) and B.Sc. (2015)  in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. 

Research Interests:  Phase Change Material, Phase Change Memory, MEMS/NEMS Actuators and Relays, M/NEMS Fabrication.

E-mail: mmasud AT andrew.cmu.edu

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.Sc. (2019)  in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. 

Research Interests:  Phase Change Material, MEMS/NEMS Actuators, M/NEMS Fabrication.

E-mail: xinyif AT andrew.cmu.edu

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.Sc. (2020)  in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida. 

Research Interests:  Phase Change Material, MEMS/NEMS Actuators, M/NEMS Fabrication, Phase Change Memory.

E-mail: lhurtado AT andrew.cmu.edu

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

M.Sc. (2019) and B.Sc. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). 

Research Interests:  Phase Change Material, Thermal Radiative Heat Transfer, IR Thermal Image, M/NEMS Fabrication.

E-mail: hgkim AT cmu.edu
bafriedm AT andrew.cmu.edu