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TANMS Doctoral Student Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium

posted May 31, 2018, 12:24 PM by Michelle Schwartz

TANMS doctoral student, Sidhant Tiwari, has received the Best Student Paper Award in the Sensor and Transducers group at the 2018 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium held in Olympic Valley, CA. His presented work, "Frequency Doubling in Wirelessly Actuated Multiferroic MEMS Cantilevers" demonstrates how nonlinear multiferroic coupling can be used to measure multiferroic antennas without noise, the first ever demonstration of this technique. 

Sidhant is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate and a member of the Sensor and Technology Laboratory, working under Professor Robert Candler. His research focuses on studying the dynamics of multiferroic coupling and applying it to the design of a high efficiency chip-scale radio frequency devices, such as antennas. 

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TANMS Graduate Student Received Distinguished Master's Thesis Award for Research Work at TANMS

posted May 29, 2018, 9:15 AM by Michelle Schwartz   [ updated May 29, 2018, 9:19 AM ]

TANMS graduate student, Zhuyun Xiao, has been awarded the 2017-2018 Distinguished Master's Thesis Award in Physical & Wave Electronics of the UCLA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her thesis, titled "Controlling Magnetization and Strain at the Micron-Scale and Below in Strain-Mediated Composite Multiferroic Devices," focuses on the TANMS 3D thrust's goal of realizing electrically-controlled, miniaturized magnetoelectric composite devices that are energy-efficient and compact for applications such as localized particle and cell sorting. The collaborative research work was carried out by a team of researchers from TANMS (including those from UCLA, UCB and Cornell University) and scientists at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley. 
Zhuyun received her master's degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2017 and her bachelor's degree in Physics from Bryn Mawr College in 2015. She is currently a third year Ph.D. student in the Sensors and Technology Laboratory, advised by Professor Rob N. Candler in the UCLA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

TANMS Graduate Student Wins Best Poster Award at the 2018 IEEE International Magnetics Conference in Singapore

posted May 2, 2018, 4:44 PM by Michelle Schwartz   [ updated May 2, 2018, 4:48 PM ]

TANMS is proud to recognize TANMS Graduate Student, Qianchang Wang, for winning Best Poster Award at the 2018 IEEE International Magnetics Conference in Signapore. Qianchang is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate under Professor Gregory Carman in the UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Her research focuses on modeling multiferroic systems coupled with spin-orbit torque using finite element method, with applications in magnetic memory and logic.  This work numerically demonstrates the ultra energy efficiency of multiferroic control of a nanoscale magnetic memory bit. The energy consumption is as low as 22 aJ per flip for a Terfenol-D disk, which is 3-4 orders more energy efficient than current-based control mechanisms. 


[The following is the title/abstract of the paper that was presented at the 2018 Intermag Conference]

Voltage Induced Strain-mediated Perpendicular Magnetization Control for In-memory Computing Device

ABSTRACT: Magnetic memory has attracted substantial attention due to its promise of high energy efficiency combined with non-volatility. Conventionally, the magnetization is controlled by spin-transfer torque (STT) current but ohmic heating makes the current-based switching mechanisms energy inefficient (100fJ/flip). In contrast, strain-mediated multiferroic composites (i.e. coupled magnetoelastic and piezoelectric thin films) provide ultra-high energy efficiency as high as 100aJ/flip due to negligible induced current during the switching process.  In this study, a fully coupled model is used to simulate strain-mediated magnetization control of nanodots with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) on a PZT (Pby[ZrxTi1-x]O3) thin film. This model is also used to study Bennet clocking of nanodot arrays.

TANMS Takes Second Place at the National Perfect Pitch Competition

posted Nov 7, 2017, 2:35 PM by Tsai-Tsai O-Lee   [ updated Nov 7, 2017, 2:35 PM ]


TANMS is proud to announce that Stephen Sasaki, doctoral student from UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry department has placed second in the 2017 National NSF ERC Perfect Pitch Competition with his pitch titled "Wireless Lab on a Microchip: A Continuous Clinical Grade Health Monitoring Implant".  

Stephen is the current TANMS SLC President and participates on the Materials Thrust under the guidance of faculty adviser Professor Sarah Tolbert.  

Congratulations, Stephen!

TANMS 2017 Perfect Pitch Competition

posted Sep 26, 2017, 4:39 PM by Michelle Schwartz   [ updated Sep 29, 2017, 11:08 AM ]

Our TANMS Perfect Pitch competition was fantastic!

A big thank you to all of the students who participated and effectively articulated their respective pitches both in person and online. It was refreshing to see and hear 15 pitches addressing a mix of application areas using TANMS technology. 

Congratulations to the winners!

1st place: "Wireless Lab on a Microchip: A Continuous Clinical Grade Health Monitoring Implant" by Stephen Sasaki, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2nd place:  "Revolutionary Nanoscale Motor for use in Drug Delivery Vehicle" by Auni Kundu, UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
3rd place:"Micro-RFID for Grocery Stores" by Ty Karaba, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

(Pictured - Stephen Sasaki & Tom Normand, TANMS Industry Liaison Officer)

Also, a big thank you to our judges as well! We appreciated their time and constructive comments:
  • Schaffer Grimm - Business Strategist, Institute for Technology Advancement 
  • Audrey Pool O'Neal -  Director, Women in Engineering 
  • Bill Goodin - Industry Relations Coordinator, Electrical Engineering 
  • David Blancha - Assistant Director, Graduate Student Career Services
  • Jane Chang -  Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Pilar O'Cadiz - Education Director, TANMS Engineering Research Center

We are looking forward to the national competition on November 1st in Washington, DC at the ERC Biennial Meeting.








2017 TANMS Young Scholars Program Culminates with the Dedication of the Elijah S. Robinson Award

posted Aug 11, 2017, 10:31 AM by Tsai-Tsai O-Lee





For the second year in running, high school teacher and RET program participant, Eric Mattsson, brings to UCLA a team of six high school students from Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet to participate in the TANMS Young Scholars Program (YSP).  Team members Sydney Balkcom, Corey Kizzee, Jai Lewis, Thailiya Thomas, Robert Nwoye, and Naim Wright worked under the guidance of graduate student mentor, Andres Chavez, in Professor Gregory Carman's lab on the research project titled "Effect of Strain on Ferromagnetic Resonance in Ni Elements".  Aside from research, the young scholars learned about college life during a discussion panel with undergraduate researchers participating in the TANMS REU program, explored electromagnetism through the hands-on TANMS Science Modules, and attended a field trip to Los Angeles Exhibition Park, California African American Museum and the California Science Center.  The Young Scholars Program culminated with the students providing a team oral presentation on their research project and participated in a "Perfect Pitch" competition designed by Mr. Mattsson where teams presented their ideas on how to resolve negative environmental impacts of pesticides by using TANMS multiferroic technology.

The YSP Culmination ended with a very special presentation of the first Elijah S. Robinson Award for Inspiration, Integrity and Scholarly Promise in Engineering to rising junior, Naim Wright.  Naim has a strong interest in STEM and has goals for the medical field.  His collaborative disposition, academic diligence and competency is exemplary for what this award recognizes. 
 

About Elijah S. Robinson



Elijah S. Robinson joined the TANMS family one year ago as part of the 2016 Young Scholars Program. He worked under the mentorship of graduate student, Xiang Li, in Professor Kang Wang’s group at UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering.  He was a rising senior from Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School at the time of his participation and was set to attend California State University, Dominguez Hills, this coming fall, majoring in Computer Engineering.  Sadly, on June 27, 2017, Elijah's life was lost tragically.  

Elijah's spirit epitomizes the TANMS principles and is best expressed by his own words: “Because I understand how important technology is to this world […] I have a big plan for myself and will pursue it and give it my all. I’m fully aware of the hard work it will take and I know it’s all worth it in the long run. […] I'm driven to become a software engineer and take advantage of all opportunities that are available to me. Opportunities like TANMS YSP is what I'm searching for and I will love to be a part of it and grow as a STEAM prodigy.” 

Elijah exemplified TANMS' values and vision in his generosity and compassion for others, and in his resilience and persistence in the pursuit of higher education and engineering career goals.  In his memory, TANMS dedicates the Elijah S. Robinson Award for Inspiration, Integrity and Scholarly Promise in Engineering. 

TANMS Welcomes Professor Dino Di Carlo As New Faculty Researcher

posted Aug 8, 2017, 4:06 PM by Tsai-Tsai O-Lee   [ updated Aug 8, 2017, 4:09 PM ]

 PHOTO CREDIT: Erin Ng, UCLA Daily Bruin
 
The TANMS family would like to welcome Professor Dino Di Carlo and graduate students, Reem Khojah and Yilian Wang, as the newest members of our 3D Thrust. Professor Di Carlo is a Professor in the department of Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering interdepartmental graduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and received a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 2006. He then conducted postdoctoral studies from 2006-2008 at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Among other honors he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award, the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award and Coulter Translational Research Award.

With his expertise in the area of cell sorting and microfluidics, Professor Di Carlo joins the TANMS 3D Thrust to investigate applications of multiferroics in life sciences, particularly in magnetic-based cell sorting.  

TANMS Graduate Student Wins Best Student Paper Competition at 2017 IEEE International Microwave Symposium

posted Jun 20, 2017, 10:14 AM by Michelle Schwartz   [ updated Aug 8, 2017, 4:08 PM by Tsai-Tsai O-Lee ]


TANMS is proud to recognize TANMS Graduate Student, Zhi (Jackie) Yao, for winning the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2017 IEEE International Microwave Symposium in Hawaii.  Jackie is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate under Professor Ethan Wang in the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering.  Her research focuses on the development of 3D multiferroic antenna modeling capability that incorporates full interactions between elastodunamics, micromagnetics and electromagnetics. The TANMS 3D antenna modeling is a rigorous yet computationally efficient, and capable of modeling the complex magnetoelastic anisotropies, dispersive, and/or nonlinear behavior accurately. The numerical modeling tool provides guidelines and theoretical support to the multiferroic antenna design which is progressing along well within the center. 


[The following is the title/abstract of the paper that was presented at the 2017 IEEE Conference]

3D Unconditionally Stable FDTD Modeling of Micromagnetics and Electrodynamics

ABSTRACT: A rigorous yet computationally efficient three-dimensional numerical method has been proposed based on modified alternating-direction-implicit (ADI) finite difference time domain methods (FDTD) and it has the capability of modeling the eccentric property of magnetic material being anisotropic, dispersive or nonlinear. The proposed algorithm solves Maxwell’s equations and LLG equations simultaneously, requiring only tridiagonal matrix inversion as in ADI FDTD. The accuracy of the modeling has been validated by the simulated dispersive permeability of a continuous ferrite film with a 1.5 mm-thickness, using a time-step size 104times larger than the Courant limit. The permeability agrees with the theoretical prediction and magneto-static spin wave modes are observed. Moreover, electric current sheet radiators close to perfect electrical conductors loaded with 2 mm-thick ferrite films are simulated, which exhibit a radiation efficiency boost-up due to elimination of platform effect.

   

TANMS Successfully Pilots New High School Outreach Program and Welcomes Lawndale High School as a New Precollege Partner

posted Jun 1, 2017, 2:29 PM by Tsai-Tsai O-Lee   [ updated Jun 1, 2017, 5:07 PM ]


TANMS just welcomed 200 high school students from Lawndale High School in Centinela Valley High School District into our extended family!  For four days during this last week of May, TANMS graduate students, Kevin Fitzell, Maggie Xiao, Cai Chen, and Stephen Sasaki collaborated and team-taught the brand-new TANMS Electromagnetism and Nanoscale Motor Modules that they co-developed with physics teacher, Maria Lyn Genota, as part of the new TANMS high school outreach initiative that has been almost one year in the making.  The enthusiasm and dedication from Ms. Genota and these full-time graduate researchers have been astounding and was the invaluable driving force behind the successful implementation of this program.

Ms. Genota came to TANMS as a participant of our 2016 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program with high recommendations from Lawndale High School principal, Paula Rodas, and UCLA MESA/CEED Director, Rick Ainsworth.  Widely recognized for her outstanding and dedicated teaching, Ms. Genota is a recipient of numerous awards including Teacher of the Year from Inglewood Unified School District in 2016, MESA Advisor of the Year for the State of California in 2007, and the Certificated Employee of the Year from Lawndale High School in 2017.  As TANMS Deputy Director, Professor Jane Chang, so well indicated, “TANMS is truly fortunate to have Ms. Genota whose dedicated effort makes it possible to broaden the impact of our ERC.”

The TANMS Electromagnetism and Nanoscale Motor Modules were developed to align with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) while incorporating fundamental concepts from core TANMS research involving multiferroics and nanoscale motors.  Over two class periods, students engage in interactive lectures and hands-on activities as they investigate the world electromagnetism and explore multiferroic science and nanomotors.

The four-day pilot implementation at Lawndale High School culminated with a closing ceremony where all of the students who participated gathered to be recognized for their contribution to the new TANMS effort.  Members of the TANMS leadership team also provided inspirational talks that invited the students to explore their potentials as future engineers. 

We are extremely excited to witness the success of the Lawndale High School pilot.  In just a few weeks on June 22-24, TANMS will be hosting the first TANMS Summer Teacher Institute at UCLA.  In partnership with UCLA Center forExcellence in Engineering Diversity, UCLA MESA, and UCLA Science Project, TANMS will introduce the new TANMS Electromagnetism and Nanoscale Motor Module along with NGSS and Common Core strategies to a group of MESA teachers from the Los Angeles region.  Together, we aim to broaden our impact in encouraging the pursuit of STEM from high school and beyond.





 
Students show off winnings from hard-earned raffle tickets!
  
Professor Greg Carman, TANMS Center Director, speaks at the Culmination Celebration at Lawndale High School



  

TANMS Researcher Appointed as Associate Professor at Northwestern University

posted May 22, 2017, 12:24 PM by Tsai-Tsai O-Lee   [ updated May 22, 2017, 12:29 PM ]

Dr. Pedram Khalili, Co-Leader of the TANMS 1D Thrust and Memory Testbed, will be joining Northwestern University as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He will start his position in Evanston, Illinois this fall.

Dr. Khalili has been a valued member of TANMS since the center's inception in 2012, working closely with Professor Kang Wang to lead the 1D Thrust and Memory Testbed development.  He has been with the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering since 2009 where he advanced from a postdoctoral scholar (2009-2010), to a research associate (2010-2013), and to the current position as Adjunct Assistant Professor (since 2013).  He previously served as project manager at UCLA for two DARPA multi-institution programs (2009-2014), focusing on spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory (STT-RAM) and non-volatile logic (NVL), working with several university and industry partners. Since 2012, he has also served as co-founder and chief technology officer of Inston Inc., a startup company pioneering voltage-controlled MRAM. In this role, he led the development of Inston's IP portfolio of 20+ patents, and established and led joint projects with major industry players.

Dr. Khalili received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree (with distinction) from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, in 2008, both in electrical engineering. His professional activities have included serving as a guest editor for Spin, and serving on the technical program committee of the Joint MMM/Intermag Conference.

Dr. Khalili's presence in TANMS will be sorely missed.  We wish him the best success in his new position at Northwestern and look forward to opportunities to collaborate with him in the future.

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