Our group advances multi-disciplinary research across RF/microwave systems, additive manufacturing, MEMS transducers, biosensing, nanotechnology, and thermal management for next-generation electronic and sensing systems.
Our group pioneers novel additive manufacturing (AM) techniques — including Laser-Enhanced Direct Print (LE-DPAM) and aerosol jet printing — to fabricate high-frequency electronics, 3D hybrid IC packaging, and structurally embedded RF systems. Applications span mm-wave phased arrays, advanced packaging for GaAs/MEMS oscillators, and Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) for hardware security.
We design and characterize RF/microwave and mm-wave circuits, phased-array antennas, reconfigurable metasurfaces, and front-end transceivers for communications, radar, and sensing. Research includes beamforming networks, antenna-in-package solutions, and integrated front-ends for 5G and next-generation wireless systems.
Thermal co-design is critical for high-frequency electronics. Our work investigates graphene-based composites, reduced graphene oxide (rGO), and novel substrate materials for heat dissipation in RF packages, MEMS devices, and heterogeneous integrated systems — directly addressing the performance limits imposed by thermal constraints in dense, high-power electronics.
We develop micromachined resonators, filters, and transducers leveraging piezoelectric (ZnO, AlN), capacitive, and hybrid actuation mechanisms. Devices include contour-mode resonators, bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters, piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs), and MEMS oscillators targeting RF communications and precision sensing applications.
We create MEMS-based biosensors and microfluidic platforms for biomedical applications, including wireless implantable intraocular pressure (IOP) sensors for glaucoma monitoring, hydrogel-based actuator systems for cancer cell investigation, and lab-on-chip microfluidic devices for biological assays — bridging RF/MEMS expertise with critical healthcare challenges.
Our research synthesizes and characterizes functional nanomaterials — including ZnO nanostructures, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and polymer nanocomposites — for applications in magneto-dielectric RF substrates, thermal management coatings, and nanodevices. These materials underpin next-generation electronic and sensing platforms.