Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

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In the OxideMEMS Lab we invent new micromechanical designs and efficient transducers to make MEMS resonators with high resonance frequency, low motional impedance, strong transducer coupling coefficient, low bias drift and large tuning range. We investigate resonator coupling mechanisms to demonstrate channel-select filters, synchronized oscillators and inertial sensors for communication, computation and navigation. We explore inter-domain coupling to design merged NEMS-CMOS, Photonic-MEMS and QEMS devices.

The SonicMEMS group works on developing integrated systems using MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) fabrication techniques.

Optoelectronics and Laser Devices

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The Cornell Nanophotonics group investigates the physics and application of nanoscale photonic structures. In particular we are interested in light confining structures that can slow down, enhance and manipulate light. Photonic structures can enhance light-matter interaction by orders of magnitude, enabling the devices? optical properties to be controlled externally, either optically or electro-optically.

The Semiconductor Optoelectronics Group conducts research in diverse areas related to semiconductor optoelectronic devices, terahertz devices, optical and terahertz ultrafast spectroscopy, and the optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures.

Semiconductor Physics and Devices

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Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Circuits

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The Asynchronous VLSI and Architecture Group is a research group that is part of the Computer Systems Laboratory at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell. Our group uses formal synthesis methods for the design of provably correct, highly concurrent, reliable, and robust asynchronous systems.
Our group also contributes to the general design automation community by hosting the CVS repository and mailing lists for the Magic VLSI layout editor.
The asynchronous VLSI and architecture group is primarily supported by the National Science Foundation and the Defense and Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The OEVLSI group is led by Prof. Alyssa Apsel with broad interests in the field of high performance analog and mixed signal integrated circuits and systems. Our research is guided by a unifying core value: Scaling of integrated circuit technology, while solving many problems, creates many other interesting problems and new research challenges at the system level and the circuit level.

The UNIC group does research on the next generations of ultra-high performance analog circuits and systems. Our research interests include the application of the mathematical theory of wave propagation to high performance analog circuit design...