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FBAR Filters and Resonators: The Next Generation
Tue, Jun 01, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Richard RubyAbstract:
Introduced in 2001, Avago (then Agilent) sold over one million filters by 2002. However, this accomplishment is over-shadowed by the more recent observation that Avago stands to sell 3 Billion filters by the end of 2010. To understand this phenomenon and by extension what else can one do with these small AlN piezoelectric resonators, I will cover the mBVD model for mechanical resonators, method of extracting Q and coupling coefficient from mechanical resonators. This leads to an 'apple to apple' Figure of Merit (FOM) comparison between various kinds of mechanical resonators either in commercial production or studied in Academic research programs. This leads to a short discourse on filter design and the FOMs needed to meet customer requirements of steep skirts, low insertion loss and excellent rejection and isolation. Next, I will cover two recent research topics within Avago: Zero Drift Resonators (ZDR) and Coupled Resonator Filters (CRF). The former device is useful for both temperature stable filters and oscillators (I will also cover scaling laws for ZDR --as well as for any mechanical resonator). CRF devices are of interest because a CRF device is intrinsically both a filter and a balun (allowing one to match single-ended to differential). Also, CRF is notable in that it is a serious reduction in die size compared to traditional FBAR filters (which are smaller than their SAW filter counter parts). This talk will start with an overview of FBAR technology.Biography: Rich Ruby started FBAR research at HP Labs in 1993 and has seen it go from Academic curiosity to high volume commercial applications. Rich was made Fellow of IEEE this year and will be awarded the C.B. Sawyer Award at the International Frequency Control Symposium this year as well for his work on FBAR. Rich worked on all aspects of FBAR and the original design and platform has remained the same since 1997. Rich has over 70 patents in the area of FBAR and has been awarded the Hewlett Prize the Barney Oliver Prize and the Samuel Silver Award during his career.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Chemical-Reaction-Inspired Metaheuristic for Optimization
Mon, Jun 07, 2010 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Guest Speaker: Victor O.K. Li,The University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong, ChinaAstract: We have proposed a new metaheuristic, called Chemical Reaction Optimization (CRO), to solve hard optimization problems. CRO mimics the interactions of molecules in a chemical reaction to reach a low energy stable state. In this talk, we apply CRO to the scheduling problem in grid computing. We compare the CRO approach with four generally acknowledged metaheuristics, and find that CRO performs the best.Biography: Victor O.K. Li received SB, SM, EE and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981, respectively. He is Associate Dean of Engineering and Chair Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Guest Chair Professor of Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has also served as Managing Director of Versitech Ltd., the technology transfer and commercial arm of HKU, and is now serving on the boards of Sunevision Holdings Ltd. and China.com Ltd listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA, and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. Sought by government, industry, and academic organizations, he has lectured and consulted extensively around the world. He has received numerous awards, including the PRC Ministry of Education Changjiang Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Visiting Fellowship in Communications, the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, and the Order of the Bronze Bauhinia Star, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the IEEE, the IAE, and the HKIE. Hosted by Professor C.C.-Jay KuoAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Dr. Jeffrey Tsao Seminar: Solid-State Lighting
Mon, Jun 14, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Solid-State Lighting: Science, Technology and
Economic PerspectivesAbstract: Throughout its history, lighting technology has made tremendous progress: the efficiency with which power is converted into
usable light has increased 2.8 orders of magnitude over three centuries. This progress has, in turn, fueled huge increases in the consumption of
light and productivity of human society. In this talk, we review an emerging new technology, solid-state lighting: the underlying advances
in physics and materials that have enabled its current performance; its frontier performance potential; the energy consumption and human
productivity benefits associated with achieving this performance potential; and scientific challenges that lie enroute.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gregory Reinhard
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center 1st Annual Symposium
Fri, Jun 18, 2010 @ 07:00 AM - 08:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
USC has been selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. As part of our NCI Physical Sciences Oncology Center, we will be hosting our First Annual Symposium. By partnering with scientists from various non-biology disciplines such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering, the NCI envisions through a combination of 1) challenging "accepted" dogma; 2) generating orthogonal sets of data and integrating them with existing knowledge; and 3) integrating novel conceptual approaches from these different fields that new perspectives and novel approaches will emerge to help generate answers to some of the major questions and barriers in cancer research. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation as a Physical Science-Oncology Center. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, non-traditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity.Register at: http://bit.ly/USCPSOC2010Speakers include: Physical Sciences Measurement Platforms - Michael Snyder, Stanford University; Shan Wang, Stanford; University; and Scott Manalis, MITCancer Evolution - John Pepper, University of Arizona; Jasmine Foo, Memorial Sloan-Kettering; and Darryl Shibata, University of Southern CaliforniaPhysical Sciences in Industry - Scott Patterson, AMGEN; David Parkinson, NODALITY; and Mark Chee, Prognosys BiosciencesPhysical Sciences Oncology Centers from around the Nation - Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University; Robert Gatenby, Moffitt; Peter Kuhn, Scripps; Robert "Bob" Austin, Princeton University; and Jan Liphardt, UC Berkeley
Location: Davidson Conference Center - UPC Campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yvonne Suarez
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Belief Propagation based MIMO Detection Operating on Quantized Channel Outputs
Mon, Jun 21, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Amine Mezghani,
Institute of Circuit Theory and Signal Processing,
Technical University of Munich (TUM), GermanyAbstract: In multiple-antenna communications, as bandwidth and modulation
order increase, system components must work with demanding tolerances. In
particular, high resolution and high sampling rate analog-to-digital
converters (ADCs) are often prohibitively challenging to design. Therefore
ADCs for such applications should be low-resolution. The talk provides new
insights into the problem of optimal signal detection based on quantized
received signals for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. It
capitalizes on previous works which extensively analyzed the unquantized
linear vector channel using graphical inference methods. In particular, a
³loopy² belief propagation-like (BP) MIMO detection algorithm, operating
on quantized data with low complexity, is proposed. In addition, we study
the impact of finite receiver resolution in fading channels in the
large-system limit by means of a state evolution analysis of the BP
algorithm, which refers to the limit where the number of transmit and
receive antennas go to infinity with a fixed ratio. Simulations show that
the theoretical findings might give accurate results even with a moderate
number of antennas.Bio:
Amine Mezghani was born in Tunsia. He received the "Diplome d'Ingénieur"
degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, and the Dipl.-Ing. in
electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM),
Germany,both in 2006. Since 2006, he has been working toward the doctorate
degree at the institute of circuit theory and signal processing, TUM. His
research interests focus on the study of MIMO communications under
low-resolution Analog-to-Digital-Converters.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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(Photonics Seminar) Quantum Information Processing on Photonic Chips
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Prof. Dirk Englund, Columbia UniversityAbstract: Nanoscale optical structures open a way to control the interaction of photons with single emitters in solids, such as semiconductor quantum dots or color centers. I will describe how this controlled light matter interaction can be used to construct basic components for quantum information science, a field that exploits inherently quantum mechanical effects to process and exchange information in ways that cannot be achieved classically. I will discuss recent work on cavity-enhanced generation of single photons; nonlinear optical interactions at the single photon level; nonclassical state generation by photon blockade and tunneling; and some early directions on cavity-enhanced optical interactions with long-lived spin qubits in diamond.Bio: Dirk Englund holds a BS in Physics from the California Institute of Technology and an MS in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University. After postdoctoral work in the Physics Department at Harvard University, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of Columbia University as an Assistant Professor, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. His research focuses on quantum optics in photonic nanostructuresHeld by Prof. Michelle Povinelli
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jing Ma
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Mon, Jun 28, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam.During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects. * A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
* A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
* A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
* Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
* A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
* A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Location: USC Campus or Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Sensing the Environment Across Scales: From Medical Imaging to the Global Climate and Ecosystems
Mon, Jun 28, 2010 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan:
Abstract: Active microwave sensing is key in noninvasive characterization of complex targets in a variety of high-impact applications today. These include remote sensing of the Earth for global weather and climate studies, planetary exploration, detection and characterization of underground or underwater structures, construction technologies, exploration of subsurface natural resources, and high-resolution medical imaging. Accurate characterization of spatial distribution and material properties of complex objects on scales as large as the globe and as small as the interior of the human body requires a suite of analytical, computational, and experimental tools. For example, it requires efficient numerical forward scattering algorithms based on wave theory, appropriate inversion techniques based on stochastic nonlinear optimization approaches, availability of sufficient laboratory and field measurements, and well characterized and optimized instruments and measurement parameters.
This talk will start with a brief introduction to the forward electromagnetic scattering solutions at both large and small spatial scales for surface and subsurface structures, followed by a summary of our research on inversion and estimation techniques applied to quantitative remote sensing of the Earth subsurface and 3D super-resolution medical imaging. The commonalities and distinctions of approaches among different scales will be discussed. Examples will be shown using various measurement scenarios with emphasis on two classes of applications, namely, environmental sensing of hydrologic and carbon cycle processes and medical imaging. This research will be discussed in the context of several current high-priority programs identified by scientific and government organizations.BIOGRAPHY: MAHTA MOGHADDAM received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. She is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has been since 2003. From 1991 to 2003, she was with the Radar Science and Engineering Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, CA. At JPL, she served many technical and leadership roles such as Systems Engineer for the Ku-band Cassini Radar, the "Science Chair" of the JPL Advanced Mission Studies Team (Team X), and the JPL Science Team Lead for LightSAR. She led a number of research projects at JPL, including a major NASA Instrument Incubator Program project involving a team of more than 40 people from JPL and other industry and academic institutions. During the past nearly 20 years of active involvement in the remote sensing community, Dr. Moghaddam has introduced a number of innovative approaches for quantitative interpretation of synthetic aperture radar imagery. Her most recent contributions include the development of new radar instrument and measurement technologies for subsurface and subcanopy characterization, development of forward scattering models and inverse scattering techniques for scattering from layered random media including those with rough interfaces, and transforming concepts of radar remote sensing to high-resolution near-field and medical imaging. She is and has been the Principal and Co-investigator on numerous research projects and has authored or coauthored over 200 journal and conference papers. She has served a number of editorial roles in prominent IEEE journals. Dr. Moghaddam is a member of the NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Science Definition Team, Chair of the Algorithms Working Group for SMAP, and the Principal Investigator for AirMOSS, a new NASA Earth Ventures Mission. She has chaired and co-chaired numerous workshops and conference sessions. She has received four Certificates of Recognition from NASA for her technical contributions to instrument and mission development. Dr. Moghaddam leads a vibrant research group at Michigan, consisting of 11 graduate students, 2 post-docs, and several undergraduate students. She is a member of URSI Commission B, the Electromagnetics Academy, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. She is a Fellow of IEEE.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Recent Development of MEMS and Crystal Oscillators and their Impacts on the Industry
Mon, Jun 28, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Due to their high Q and temperature-stable properties, quartz crystal oscillators
are important clock sources in consumer, commercial, industrial, and military products
for many years. The demand for quartz crystals and crystal oscillators has been increasing
steadily between 4 and 10% annually since the dotcom market collapse in 2000~2001.
The total market for 2010 is expected to exceed $4.2B. The quartz crystal and crystal oscillator
industry has made major progresses in miniaturization, performance enhancement,
and cost reduction in the past ten years. The unique fabrication and encapsulation requirements
though render quartz crystals and crystal oscillators difficult or close to impossible to be integrated
onto the silicon-based IC platforms. The recent strong marketing push of the all silicon MEMS
resonators and oscillators seemed to re-ignite the interest in displacing the quartz crystal technology
and to open up again the prospect in clock source integration. This talk reviews the development
of the all silicon MEMS oscillators and crystal oscillators in the past few years and commenting on
what challenges they face in the highly competitive frequency control products industry. Speaker Bio:C.S. Lam received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984. He was an MTS and a manager
at the Frequency Control Products Division of Bell Laboratories until 1995. From 1995 to 2002, he was
the Director of R&D at Vectron International responsible for the development of crystal and SAW products.
From 2002 to 2007, he was the CTO at TXC Corporation in Taiwan. Presently he is the Director of Product Development & Marketing at Epson Electronics America in San Jose, CA responsible for supporting the sales
and product marketing of Epson Toycom's quartz crystal, crystal oscillator, and sensor products
in North America.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Behnam Analui
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Tue, Jun 29, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam.During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects. * A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
* A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
* A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
* Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
* A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
* A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Location: USC Campus or Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Wed, Jun 30, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam.During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects. * A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
* A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
* A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
* Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
* A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
* A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Location: USC Campus or Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
