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Technical Seminar |
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Insights
on Product Development: MEMS Ultrasonic Transducer |
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DATE/TIME Wednesday,
November 14, 2012 (4:30 to 6:00pm) NOTE
DIFFERENT TIME OF DAY |
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AMD Fort Collins Campus
(Fort Collins, CO)
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DIRECTIONS
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From
I-25, take Harmony Road Exit (Exit 265) westbound, and enter AMD
campus on right immediately following Harmony/Ziegler
intersection. AMD is located on the NW corner of Harmony
Road and Ziegler Road. Proceed to 3rd floor for escort to
seminar auditorium. Non-AMD
employees: please arrive at 4:15pm for security sign-in
and escort. |
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COST
Free. As always,
food & drinks will be provided. |
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RSVP
Register at
https://gomartin.net/sscs/2012/rsvp_2012_11_14.htm |
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ABSTRACT |
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Ultrasonic transducers are used in a variety of applications
such as proximity sensors, level detectors and flow meters.
Current transducers, most commonly based on piezoelectric
ceramics, are large for current trends in integration and
miniaturization. In response to these trends, academic research
has provided significant knowledge on smaller, MEMS Ultrasonic
Transducers (MUTs) utilizing capacitive or piezoelectric
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This
presentation will provide an inside look into the development of
a MEMS ultrasonic transducer in an industrial environment. The
presentation starts with a quick review of background knowledge
followed by the technical overview of the device. The content
also includes development challenges, some reliability results,
application demonstrations, and of course, a few of those little
known inside stories.. |
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PRESENTATION SLIDES
pdf (to be
posted at a later date) |
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DR.
OSVALDO BUCCAFUSCA (Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) |
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Osvaldo Buccafusca is a Master Level Technologist at Avago
Technologies. His professional career started at the Center of
Lasers and their applications in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where
he developed pulsed laser spectroscopic systems. He moved to the
US and obtained a Ph.D. from Colorado University with a research
focus on vertical cavity lasers (VCSELs). After graduation, he
studied optical properties in semiconductor materials as a
Visitor Scientist in the University of Iowa. In 1998, he joined
the Lightwave Division in Hewlett-Packard which later became
Agilent Technologies. He led the development of start-of-the-art
instrumentation such as the Infiniium Precision Timebase with
revolutionary subpicosecond jitter capabilities and he Infiniium
Optical sampling scope with 1THz bandwidth. In 2003, he moved
back to Fort Collins and became part of Avago's technical staff.
Dr. Buccafusca is an active member of the IEEE. In 2005, he
became Chair of the Centennial Subsection (currently the High
Plains Section) serving the Northern Colorado and Wyoming areas.
Currently, he is a member of the MEMS technical committee of the
IEEE Electron Devices Society. |
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