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SUMMARY:NEMS – From devices to systems
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Guillermo Villanueva - SNSF Assistant Prof - EPFL STI IMT\
 nMiniaturization of mechanical devices has always accompanied societal evo
 lution. This has been particularly true in the case of sensors and communi
 cation devices. The reduced size of Micro- and Nano- electromechanical sys
 tems (M/NEMS) allows for lower power consumption\, lower production cost\,
  faster response and better limit of detection. These characteristics make
  M/NEMS ideal candidates to solve the upcoming global technological challe
 nges faced by our society\, e.g. Internet of Things\, smart buildings\, sm
 art roads\, and smart cities. However\, some improvements need to be achie
 ved both at the device level and at the system level before M/NEMS can be 
 globally deployed and used.\nIn my talk I will describe my past and presen
 t effort on the devices’ performance optimization\, and I will stress th
 e importance of working at a higher level\, at the systems level\, to succ
 essfully target different applications. This includes integrating the mech
 anical device together with for example electronics\, microfluidics or gas
  micro-columns.\nBio: Guillermo Villanueva is a SNSF Assistant Professor a
 t EPFL in Lausanne since 2013. He obtained his Ms. Sc. in Physics in 2002 
 from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and his Ph.D. in Microelectronic E
 ngineering from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2006 for his wor
 k on NEMS/MEMS for biodetection and scanning probes. He then worked as a p
 ost-doctoral researcher at EPFL\, Caltech and DTU in the fields of nanofab
 rication\, coupled and non-linear phenomena and dissipation in NEMS respec
 tively. In 2013 he joined EPFL as a SNSF Assistant Professor to continue h
 is research in fundamentals of nanomechanical systems for sensing and comm
 unications. In 2005 he was awarded the MNE Young Investigator Award for hi
 s PhD work\, in 2008 he was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship and in 2014 h
 e was awarded the MEE Young Investigator Award.
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