Northeastern Sensors & Nano Systems Laboratory
In NS&NS Lab, we are working on the development of miniaturized, low-power and high-performance sensors and radio frequency components. We focus on understanding and exploiting the fundamental properties of micromechanical structures and advanced nanomaterials to engineer new classes of micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) with unique and enabling features applied to the areas of chemical, physical and biological sensing and low power reconfigurable radio communication systems.
Dr. Rinaldi is currently seeking brilliant and self-motivated graduate students to join his group. Please feel free to contact him if you have interests in conducting experimental work in the broad area of MEMS/NEMS devices!
FEB 17
Outstanding Paper Award at MEMS 2019
By Sungho Kang in Album, Conference, News
The paper S. Kang, Z. Qian, V. Rajaram, S D Calisgan and M. Rinaldi “Chip-scale MEMS-CMOS Multispectral Infrared Chemical Sensor”, has been honored as a winner of the Outstanding Paper Award at the 32nd IEEE Internatioanl Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2019) held on January 27 – 31 in Seoul, Korea. Congratulations!
DEC 27
Our Project Awarded the Resilience Solutions Grant
By Sungho Kang in Album, News
Our project “Battery-less Infrared Sensor Tags for Reliable Occupancy Sensing (BISTROS)” has been selected for the Resilience Solutions Grant Award
in Northeastern’s GapFund360 program sponsored by the Global Resilience Institute. GapFund360 is a new funding program at Northeastern University (NU) overseen by the Center for Research Innovation (CRI) will help faculty researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and commercially viable prototypes. Congratulations!
DEC 18
Ryan Sungho Kang passed his MS Thesis Defense!
By Flavius Pop in Album, News
Ryan Sungho Kang successfully defended his MS Thesis entitled “Ultra-narrowband Metamaterial Absorbers for Multispectral Infrared Microsystems” on Dec 6th 2018. Congratulations and good luck with the continuation of the PhD program!
NOV 06
Gates Foundation awards the ‘Global Grand Challenge’ grant
By Sungho Kang in Album, News
We were awarded the grant “Global Grand Challenge” by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop miniaturized, maintenance-free zero-power chemical sensors for pest and disease monitoring.
“Manual surveillance is time-consuming and requires prior knowledge of disease symptoms. Automated, sensor-based crop surveillance is far more effective, but relatively expensive, and the sensors constantly consume power, making them unsuitable for low-resource settings. They will develop a low-energy sensor-based monitoring system by exploiting a recently developed technology that comprises a micromechanical switch made of two cantilever beams.” Congratulations!
OCT 15
Paper featured in the cover of Nature Nanotechnology
By Sungho Kang in Device, News, Press Releases
Our recent work Z. Qian, S. Kang, V. Rajaram, C. Cassella, N. E. McGruer, and M. Rinaldi, “Zero-power infrared digitizers based on plasmonically enhanced micromechanical photoswitches” is featured in the cover of Nature Nanotechnology (October 2017 Issue) Cheers!
- IEEE Sensors 2012 Late News Paper Accepted for Presentation
The paper Y. Hui and M. Rinaldi, Ultra-Fast and High Resolution NEMS Thermal Detector Based on a Nano-Air-Gap Piezoelectric Resonant Structure, has been accepted for “Late News” presentation at the IEEE Sensors 2012 conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 28-31 October 2012…. - Paper accepted for publication in Microsystems & Nanoengineering
The paper Z. Qian, Y. Hui, F. Liu, S. Kang, S. Kar and M. Rinaldi, “Graphene Aluminum Nitride NEMS Resonant Infrared Detector” has been accepted for publication in Microsystems & Nanoengineering. Congratulations! Paper accepted for late news oral presentation at Hilton Head Workshop 2016 The paper Z. Qian, S. Kang, V. Rajaram and M. Rinaldi, “50 nm THICK ALUMINUM NITRIDE PIEZOELECTRIC NANO-PLATE RESONANT THERMAL DETECTORS” has been accepted for late news oral presentation at the 2016 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2016), Hilton Head, June 5 – 9, 2016…. - Best Student Paper Award at EFTF-IFCS 2017
Zhenyun (the second from right) holding the award certificate with another award winner (Ruochen Lu from UIUC, the third from right), UFFC president (Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen from UC Berkeley, the first from right) and conference organizers…. - 5 Papers Accepted for Transducers 2019
5 Papers Accepted for Transducers 2019 The 5 papers have been accepted for presentation at Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2019) to be held in Berlin, Germany on June 23-27, 2019. Y. Yu and M. Rinaldi, “Chip Scale Micro-acoustic Radio Frequency Gyrator” B. Herrera, F. Pop, C. Cassella and M. Rinaldi, “AlN PMUT-Based Ultrasonic Power Transfer Links for Implantable Electronics” F. Pop, B. Herrera, W. Zhu, M. Assylbekova, C. Cassella, N. McGruer, and M. Rinaldi, “Zero-Power Acoustic Wake-up Receiver Based on DMUT Transmitter, PMUT Arrays Receivers and MEMS Switches for Intrabody Links” S. D. Calisgan, S. Kang, V. Rajaram, Z. Qian, M. Rinaldi, “Threshold-triggered MEMS-CMOS Infrared Resonant Detector with Near-Zero Standby Power Consumption” G. Chen and M. Rinaldi, “Super High Frequency Lateral-Field Excited Aluminum Nitride Cross-sectional Lame Mode Resonators”. … - Best Paper Award at IFCS-ISAF 2020
Best Paper Award at IFCS-ISAF 2020 7 Papers Presented at IFCS-ISAF 2020 Conference Paper Accepted for Publication in IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Paper Accepted for Publication in Applied Physics Letter 3 Papers Accepted for MEMS 2020 [January 18-22, Vancouver, Canada] Two Journal Papers Accepted for Publication…
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