RF MEMS Transducer Group

Publications

  • D. C. Lugo, R. A. Ramirez, J. Wang, T. M. Weller, “Low permittivity cladding to improve the performance of dielectric rod waveguides and dielectric end-fire antennas, ” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 17, no.12, pp. 2213-2217, Dec. 2018, doi:
  • A. Alsolami, A. Zaman, I. F. Rivera, M. Baghelani, J. Wang, “Improvement of Deep Reactive Ion Etching Process For Motional Resistance Reduction of Capacitively Transduced Vibrating Resonators ” IEEE Sensors Letters , vol. 2, no.1, pp. 5000104, March 2018, doi:10.1109/lsens.2018.2797076
  • E. A. Rojas-Nastrucci, R. Ramirez, D. Hawatmeh, D. Lan, J. Wang, T. Weller, “Laser enhanced direct print additive manufacturing for mm-wave components and packaging” 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 1531-1534, Sept. 2017, doi:
  • M. Baghelani, D. Lan, J. Wang, “Design of spurious mode-free elliptical ring resonators” Microsystem Technologies, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 3635-3644, August 2017, doi:
  • R. A. Ramirez, D. Lan, J. Wang, T. M. Weller, “MMIC packaging and on-chip low-loss lateral interconnection using additive manufacturing and laser machining” 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), pp. 38-40, June 2017, doi:
  • J. Castro, E. A. Rojas-Nastrucci, A. Ross, T. M. Weller, J. Wang, “Fabrication, modeling, and application of ceramic-thermoplastic composites for fused deposition modeling of microwave components” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 2073-2084, June 2017, doi:
  • K. H. Church, N. B. Crane, P. I. Deffenbaugh, T. P. Ketterl, C. G. Neff, P. B. Nesbitt, J.T. Nussbaum, C. Perkowski, H. Tsang, J. Castro, J. Wang, T. M. Weller, “Multimaterial and multilayer direct digital manufacturing of 3-D structural microwave electronics” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 688-701, April 2017, doi:
  • M. Wei, A. Avila, I. Rivera, M. Baghelani, J. Wang, “ZnO on nickel RF micromechanical resonators for monolithic wireless communication applications” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 055006, March 2017, doi:
  • I. Rivera, A. Avila, J. Wang, “Fourth-Order Contour Mode ZnO-on-SOI Disk Resonators for Mass Sensing Applications ” Actuators, vol. 5, no. 4, Dec. 2016, doi:
  • V. Carias, Z. N. Porshokouh, K. S.Repa, J. A., H. Srikanth, J. Rühe, R. Toomey, J. Wang, “Remotely Controlled Micromanipulation by Buckling Instabilities in Fe3O4 Nanoparticle Embedded Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) Surface Arrays” ACS applied materials and interfaces, vol. 8, no. 41, pp. 28012-28018, Oct. 2016, doi:
  • J. Castro, E. Rojas, T. Weller, J. Wang, “High-permittivity and low-loss electromagnetic composites based on Co-fired Ba0. 55Sr0. 45TiO3 or MgCaTiO2 microfillers for additive manufacturing and their application to 3-D printed K-band antennas” Journal of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 102-112, July 2016, doi:
  • D. C. Lugo, R. A. Ramirez, J. Wang, T. M. Weller, “Low permittivity cladding to improve the performance of dielectric rod waveguides and dielectric end-fire antennas” 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), pp. 1-3, 22 May 2016, doi:
  • J. Castro, E. Rojas, A. Ross, T. Weller, J. Wang, “High-k and low-loss thermoplastic composites for Fused Deposition Modeling and their application to 3D-printed Ku-band antennas” 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), pp. 1-4, 22 May 2016, doi:
  • J. Castro, E. Rojas, T. Weller, J. Wang, “Engineered nanocomposites for additive manufacturing of microwave electronics” International Symposium on Microelectronics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 189-196, Oct. 2015, doi:
  • D. Lan, J. Dewdney, I.T. Wu, I. Rivera, A. Avila, J. Wang, “Dual-frequency MEMS based Oscillator using a single ZnO-on-SOI Resonator” International Symposium on Microelectronics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 740-744, Oct. 2015, doi:
  • I.T. Nassar, J. Wang; J.L. Frolik, T. M. Weller, “A High-Efficiency, Miniaturized Sensor Node With 3-D Machined-Substrate Antennas for Embedded Wireless Monitoring,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 5036-5044, Sept. 2015, doi: 10.1109/ JSEN.2015.2432807
  • I. Rivera, A. Avila, J. Wang, “Fourth-Order Contour Mode ZnO-on-SOI Disk Resonators for Mass Sensing Applications,” Actuators 2015, 4(2), 60-76; doi:10.3390/act4020060.
  • V. Carias, J. Thompson, P. Kuma, L. Racz, R. Toomey and J. Wang, “Development of Injection-Moldable Composites with Ultra-Low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion and High Glass Transition Temperature for Fan-Out Wafer Level Packaging (FOWLP),” IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 2015.
  • F. L. Sinatra, T. Wu, S. Manolakos, J. Wang and T. G. Evans-Nguyen, “Differential Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry for Atomic Analysis,” Analytical Chemistry, 87 (3), pp 1685-1693, 2015. (Publication Date: Dec. 18, 2014).
  • V. Carias, J. Wang and R. Toomey, “Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Cross-Linked Coatings with Phototunable Swelling,” Langmuir, 30 (14), pp. 4105-4110, 2014.
  • M. Ladanov, P. Villalba, P. Algarin, Y. Emirov, G. Matthews, M. Ram, S. Thomas, A. Kumar and J. Wang, “Effects of the Physical Properties of Atomic Layer Deposition Grown Seeding Layers on the Preparation of ZnO Nanowires,” Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, November 2013.
  • M. Ladanov, P. Algarin, G. Matthews, M. Ram, S. Thomas, A. Kumar and J. Wang, “Microfluidic hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanowires over high aspect ratio microstructures,” Nanotechnology, vol. 24, no. 27, 375301 (9pp), August 2013.
  • T. Tevi, H. Yaghoubi, J. Wang and A. Takshi, “Application of Poly (p-Phenylene Oxide) as Blocking Layer to Reduce Self-discharge in Supercapacitors,” Journal of Power Sources, Available online 13 May 2013, 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.04.150.
  • K. Stojak, S. Pal, H. Srikanth, C. Morales, J. Dewdney, T. Weller and J. Wang, “Polymer nanocomposites exhibiting magnetically tunable microwave properties,” Nanotechnology,vol. 23, no. 13, 135602 (6pp), February 2011.
  • C. Morales, J. Dewdney, S. Pal, S. Skidmore, K. Stojak, H. Srikanth, T. Weller and J. Wang, “Tunable Magneto-Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites for Microwave Applications,” IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 302-310, Feb. 2011.
  • O. Ortiz, A. Vidyasagar, J. Wang and R. Toomey “Surface Instabilities in Ultrathin, Cross-linked Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Coatings,” Langmuir, 26 (22), pp.17489-17494, 2010.
  • I-T. Wu, N. Kislov, and J. Wang, “Fabrication of Thin-Film Nano-Scale Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) Tunnel Diode using Conventional Photolithography,” Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 144-149, June 2010.
  • M. Wei, M. Xiong, I. Wu and J. Wang, “Fabrication and Material-Centric Design of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Enabled Micromechanical Resonators,” Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, vol. 2, pp. 157-162, June 2010.

Latest Updates

Dec 24, 2020

Succesfully Defensed of Xu

Congratulations Dr. Han for succesfully defending his dessertation. We will miss you.

Dec 24, 2020

People's Choice Award.

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Dec 24, 2020

Succesfully Defensed of Abdul and Adnan

Congratulations Dr. Zaman and Dr. Alsolami for succesfully defending their dessertation. We will miss you guys and wish you good fortune.

June 24, 2020

Dr. Wang's Elevation to IEEE Senior Member

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Dec 02, 2019

Project with II-VI got selected by Corridor Matching Grants Research Program.

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Dec 02, 2019

Adnan, Xu, Kevin and Poonam all passed their Ph. D. candidacy exam!!

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Nov 17, 2019

Poonam acheived 1st place in Nanoflorida2019 poster award

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April 18, 2019

Abdul passed his ph. D. candidacy exam!!

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March 30, 2019

Poonam received IEEE Magnetic society summer school award.

Summer school will be held from 2 to 7 June 2019, at the Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA. Bravo Poonam and Many congratulations!!

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