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SUMMARY:Radio-Frequency Nanoelectromechanical Systems in Atomically-Thin S
 emiconducting Crystals
DTSTART:20150604T100000
DTSTAMP:20260510T045005Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Philip Feng\, Case Western Reserve University\nBio: Philip
  Feng is currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Cas
 e School of Engineering\, Case Western Reserve University. His research is
  primarily focused on nanoscale devices and systems. Prior to joining the 
 faculty at Case\, Feng was at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute\, California
  Institute of Technology (Caltech)\, where he served as a Staff Scientist 
 and a Co-Principal Investigator from 2007 to 2010.  He received his Ph.D.
  from Caltech in 2007 for developing ultra high frequency (UHF) nanoelectr
 omechanical systems (NEMS) with low-noise technologies for real-time singl
 e-molecule sensing.  His recent awards include an National Science Founda
 tion CAREER Award\, 3 Best Paper Awards (with his advisees\, at IEEE NEMS 
 2013\, IEEE Int. Freq. Control Symp. 2014\, and AVS Int. Symp. 2014) out o
 f 7 Best Paper Award Finalists\, a T. Keith Glennan Fellowship\, and an In
 novative Incentive Award.  Feng was one of 81 young engineers selected to
  participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2013 U.S. Fronti
 er of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium.  Subsequently\, he received the NAE 
 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award in 2014.  He is also t
 he single recipient of the Case School of Engineering Graduate Teaching Aw
 ard (2014) and Case School of Engineering Research Award (2015).  He is a
  Senior Member of IEEE\, and has been serving on the Technical Committees 
 for IEEE IEDM\, Transducers\, IEEE MEMS\, IFCS\, and other flagship intern
 ational conferences.\nNanoscience today enables exciting emergences of low
 -dimensional nanostructures and new materials with previously inaccessible
  properties.  We explore these properties\, coupled with mechanical degre
 es of freedom in designed nanostructures\, to engineer new nanomachines an
 d transducers\, for sensing and information processing. In particular\, na
 noscale electromechanical systems (NEMS) operating in their multiple reson
 ant modes can make a exquisite platform.  In this talk\, I will focus on 
 introducing 2D NEMS based on atomically-thin crystals.  While graphene ha
 s been very well known as the hallmark of 2D crystals\, other interesting 
 2D crystals with tunable bandgaps have emerged\, such as layers from trans
 ition metal di-chalcogenides (TMDCs) and black phosphorus. Atomically-thin
  structures derived from these materials possess a number of interesting e
 lectrical\, optical\, and mechanical properties\, and are attractive for n
 ew nanodevices.  I will describe our recent experiments on demonstrating 
 various high-frequency MoS2 and other 2D NEMS resonators.  By performing 
 sensitive optical and electronic measurements\, in combination with modeli
 ng\, we quantify the performance of these 2D NEMS\, and evaluate their pot
 ential applications and fundamental limits. Challenges and advances in exp
 erimental techniques will also be discussed.
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