Faculty Profiles

Yogesh Gianchandani
Division: ECE
Address: 2402 EECS
Phone: (734) 615-6407
Fax: (734) 763-9324
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Degree: Ph.D. U. Michigan
Title: Professor
Research Interests: Design and fabrication of microsensors, microactuators, andmicro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for a variety of applicationssuch as inertial sensing, environmental sensing, scanning microscopy,microfluidics, microoptics, and biomedical instrumentation; Development of manufacturing processes using combinations of traditionaland novel materials and techniques, for example, micro-electro-dischargemachining and microplasmas; Design of interface circuits for MEMS and development of co-fabricationtechniques for circuits and MEMS.
Research Areas: MEMS and Microsystems.
Areas of Specialty: Microfluidics and Gas/Chemical; Implantable Devices; Environmental Sensors; MEMS Technology and Packaging.
Selected Projects: Digital Microfluidics Using Marangoni Flows; Gas Flow in Nano-Channels: Thermal Transpiration Models; An Actively Controlled Piezoelectric Microvalve for Distributed Cryogenic Cooling Systems; Wireless Monitoring of Intraluminal Prostheses; Micromachined Joule-Thomson Cryosurgery Probe; A Wireless Micromachined Radiation Sensor; Pulsed Microdischarges and Their Use in Chemical Sensing; A Microscale Sputter-Ion Pump and Harsh Environment Multi-Plasma Microsystem; Scaling and Process Challenges in Micro-EDM Technology; Batch Mode Ultrasonic Micromachining of Ceramics and Application to Sensors and Actuators.
 
 
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