Best Poster Competition
Best Monday Poster Award
“Detection of Sub-microliter Liquid Droplets Using a Metamaterial Mesh Sensor”
Takashi Kondo{2}, Seiji Kamba{2}, Tetsuhito Suzuki{1}, Yuichi Ogawa{1}, Naoshi Kondo{1}
{1}Kyoto University, Japan; {2}Murata Manufacturing Company, Japan
Best Tuesday Poster Award
“Measurement of Plasmin Activity in Milk”
Helen Dacres, Murat Gel, Jian Wang, Alisha Anderson, Stephen Trowell
CSIRO, Australia
Best Wednesday Poster Award
“SOI 3-Axis Accelerometer with a Stress-Reduction Structure”
Motohiro Fujiyoshi{1}, Yoshiteru Omura{1}, Hirofumi Funabashi{1}, Teruhisa Akashi{1}, Yoshiyuki Hata{1}, Yutaka Nonomura{1}, Takahiro Nakayama{2}, Hitoshi Yamada{2}
{1}Toyota Central R&D labs., Inc., Japan; {2}Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Student Best Paper Competition Finalists
Track 1: Electro-Thermal Simulation and Characterization of Vertically Aligned CNTs Directly Grown on a Suspended Microhoplate for Thermal Management Applications
Cinzia Silvestri, Paolo Picciafoco, Bruno Morana, Fabio Santagata, Kouchi Zhang, Pasqualina M. Sarro
Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Track 2: Dual Gate Architecture for High Sensitivity, High Selectivity Chemical-Sensing Field Effect Transistors
Benjamin Bunes, Trevor Knowlton, Daniel Jacobs, Paul Slattum, Ling Zang
University of Utah, United States
Track 3: Enhanced Fluorescence Through the Incorporation of Nanocones/Gaps Into a Plasmonic Gratings Sensor Platform
Aaron Wood, Sheila Grant, Sagnik Basuray, Avinash Pathak, Sangho Bok, Cherian Mathai, Keshab Gangopadhyay, Shubhra Gangopadhyay
University of Missouri, United States
Track 4: Novel FBG Femtosecond Laser Inscription Method for Improved FPI Sensors for Medical Applications
Sven Poeggel{2}, Dinesh Babu Duraibabu{2}, Daniele Tosi{2}, Gabriel Leen{2}, Elfed Lewis{2}, Amedee Lacraz{1}, Michael Hambalis{1}, Charalambos Koutsides{1}, Kyricaos Kalli{1}
{1}Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; {2}University of Limerick , Ireland
Track 5: Fiber Optic Magnetometer with Sub-Pico Tesla Sensitivity for Magneto-Encephalography
Pradeep Pai{2}, Lingyao Chen{1}, Massood Tabib-Azar{2}
{1}Inven Sense, United States; {2}University of Utah, United States
Track 6: Energy Efficient Chip Transience with Superabsorbent Polymer Actuators
Shashank Pandey, Niladri Banerjee, Carlos Mastrangelo
University of Utah, United States
Track 7: Enhancing ContikiMAC for Bursty Traffic in Mobile Sensor Networks
Georgios Papadopoulos{2}, Antoine Gallais{2}, Thomas Noel{2}, Vasilis Kotsiou{1}, Periklis Chatzimisios{1}
{1}Hellenic Open University, Greece; {2}Université de Strasbourg, France
Track 8: Force-Sensing Microneedle for Assisted Retinal Vein Cannulation
Berk Gonenc{2}, Russell Taylor{2}, Iulian Iordachita{2}, Peter Gehlbach{1}, James Handa{1}
{1}Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States; {2}Johns Hopkins University, United States
Track 9: Optical Data Link Assembly for 360 µm Diameter IVUS on Guidewire Imaging Devices
Ronald Stoute{2}, Marcus Louwerse{2}, Jeannet van Rens{1}, Vincent Henneken{1}, Ronald Dekker{2}
{1}Philips Research, Netherlands; {2}Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands