Decoders 2.0

Microfabricated Decoders

Style

Flexible; Individual projects (teamwork can also be possible upon the wish of students).

To pass, you must: (i) attend at least 3/4 of the class sessions, (ii) participate in all of the invited speaker lectures, and (iii) complete the summary articles, which leads to the final perspective essay. By the end of Class #1, students must decide whether to register or drop the course.



Overview

Decoders 2.0 is the core class that sets up the foundation for D1.7 and D1.8. The lecture series plant seeds of question and curiosity in the minds of students. Invited speakers present the recent advances in their particular field once every other week. The website and selected publications of the speakers are featured on the course website. The individual project is to write a summary paper based on three papers of the invited speaker. Prepared questions and a draft of the summary papers are to be submitted prior to the speaker’s lecture. It is mandatory for students to ask questions during guest lectures. After the guest lecture, students submit the final summary paper and discuss it in the class. The final project is to write a perspective article consisting of the written summary papers. At the end of the course, a booklet of all of the perspective essays is to be uploaded on the class website. The perspective essays are a resource for future students, who take the following D1.7 and D1.8.



Objectives

  1. To gain knowledge from experts in the field,
  2. To encourage participation in class by the asking of questions to the invited speakers,
  3. To understand the impact of microfabricated devices on society,
  4. To foster interest in mechanically adaptive microfabricated devices and their purposes,
  5. To write a perspective article based on the knowledge gained by the students.



Schedule:


Class 1: September 6rd, 2023


  1. Introduction Class and provide the agenda of the semester
    1. Class Engagement
    2. Provide the representative papers of Speaker #1 and encourage students to prepare questions to ask during the presentation in the following week.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. Research Resiliency Through Lean Labs

      Durak, T., Sadat, D., Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2000074, 2020.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. The Toyota Way in Services: The Case of Lean Product Development

      Liker, Jeffrey K and James M. Morgan, Academy of Management Perspectives, 20(2), 2006.
    3. Paper 3:

      4. Triumph of the Lean Production System

      Krafcik, John F., Sloan Management Review, Vol. 30, Iss. 1, 1988.

Class 2: September 13th, 2023


  1. Invited Speaker #1

Class 3: September 20th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper.
    2. Provide the representative papers of Speaker #2 and encourage students to prepare questions to ask during the presentation in the following week.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. Enhanced piezoelectric and acoustic performances of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) films for hydroacoustic applications

      Zhang, L., Phys.Chem. Chem.Phys., 22, 5711, 2020.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. Monitoring of the central blood pressure waveform via a conformal ultrasonic device.

      Zhang, L., Nature Biomedical Engineering Vol. 2, pages 687–695, 2018.
    3. Paper 3:

      4. Stretchable ultrasonic transducer arrays for three-dimensional imaging on complex surfaces

      Zhang, L., Science Advances, Vol. 4, no. 3, eaar3979, 2018.

Class 4: September 20th, 2023


  1. Invited Speaker #2

Class 5: October 4th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper.
    2. Provide the representative papers of Speaker #3 and encourage students to prepare questions to ask during the presentation in the following week.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. Electrochemical evaluations of Fractal Microelectrodes for Energy Efficient Neurostimulation

      Park, H. Scientific Reports 8, Article number: 4375, 2018.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. Graphene prevents neurostimulation-induced platinum dissolution in fractal microelectrodes.

      Park, H. 2D Mater., 6 035037, 2019.
    3. Paper 3:

      4. Towards smart self-clearing glaucoma drainage device

      Park, H., Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 4:35, 2018.

Class 6: October 11th, 2023


  1. Invited Speaker #3

Class 7: October 25th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper.
    2. Provide the representative papers of Speaker #4 and encourage students to prepare questions to ask during the presentation in the following week.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. Conformal Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Storage from Motions of the Heart, Lung, and Diaphragm

      Dagdeviren, C., PNAS, 111, 5, 1927-1932, 2014.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. Conformal Piezoelectric Systems for Clinical and Experimental Characterization of Soft Tissue Biomechanics

      Dagdeviren, C., Nature Materials, 14, 728-736, 2015.

    3. Paper 3:

      4. Energy Harvesting from the Animal/Human Body for Self-Powered Electronics

      Dagdeviren, C., Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 19, 1, 85-108, 2017.

Class 8: October 25th, 2023


  1. Invited Speaker #4

Class 9: November 1th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper.
    2. Provide the representative papers of Speaker #5 and encourage students to prepare questions to ask during the presentation in the following week.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. Optogenetic stimulation of hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall

      Ramirez, S., Nature, Vol. 484, 381-387, 2012.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. Activating positive memory engrams suppresses depression-like behaviour

      Ramirez, S., Nature, Vol. 522, 335-351, 2015.
    3. Paper 3:

      4. Identification and optogenetic manipulation of memory engrams in the hippocampus

      Ramirez, S., Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, Vol. 7, 1-9, 2014.

Class 10: November 8th, 2023


  1. Invited Speaker #5

Class 11: November 15th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper.
    2. Provide the representative papers of Speaker #6 and encourage students to prepare questions to ask during the presentation in the following week.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. Parametric Study of Zigzag Microstructure for Vibrational Energy Harvesting

      Karami, A., Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 21, no. 1, 2012.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. Coupled out of plane vibrations of spiral beams for micro-scale applications

      Karami, A., Journal of Sound and Vibration, 329 5584–5599, 2010.
    3. Paper 3:

      4. Energy harvesting from controlled buckling of piezoelectric beams

      Karami, A., Smart Mater. Struct. 24 115005, 2015.

Class 12: November 22nd, 2023


  1. Invited Speaker #6

Class 13: December 29th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper.
    2. Provide the perspective papers of Invited Speakers.
  1. Course Materials
    1. Paper 1:

      2. A Clear Advance in Soft Actuators

      Rogers, J.A., Science, 341, 6149, 968-969, 2013.
    2. Paper 2:

      3. Electronics for the Human Body

      Rogers, J.A., Journal of the American Medical Association, 313, 6, 561-562, 2015.
    3. Paper 3:

      4. Wearable Electronics: Nanomesh On-Skin Electronics

      Rogers, J.A., Nature Nanotechnology, 12, 839-840, 2017.
    4. Paper 4:

      5. Toward Self-Powered Sensor Networks

      Wang, Z.L., Nano Today, 5,512-514, 2010.
    5. Paper 5:

      6. Preface to the Special Section on Piezotronics

      Wang, Z.L., Advanced Materials, 24, 34, 4629, 2012.
    6. Paper 6:

      7. New Wave Power

      Wang, Z.L., Nature, 542, 159-160, 2017.
    7. Paper 7:

      8. Epidermal Electronics: Skin Health Monitoring

      Lacour, S.P., Nature Materials, 14, 659-660, 2015.
    8. Paper 8:

      9. Flexible Electronics: Tiny Lamps to Illuminate the Body

      Someya, T., Nature Materials, 9, 879-880, 2010.
    9. Paper 9:

      10. Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You

      Someya, T., IEEE Spectrum, 51-56, 2013.
    10. Paper 10:

      11. The Rise of Plastic Bioelectronics

      Someya, T., Nature, 540, 379-385, 2016.
    11. Paper 11:

      12. Nanopiezoelectric Biointerfaces

      McAlpine, M., SPIE, 2013.
    12. Paper 12:

      13. Sensing Gastrointestinal Motility

      McAlpine, M., Nature Biomedical Engineering, 1, 775-776, 2017.

Class 14: December 6th, 2023


  1. Class Discussions
    1. Discuss & evaluate the summary paper
    2. Final: Perspective article due