Decoders 1.0

Microfabricated Decoders

Style

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

This class is graded P/D/F. 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 article. By the end of Class #1, students must decide whether to register or drop the course.



Overview

Decoders 1.0 is the core class that sets up the foundation for D1.1 and D1.2. 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 articles is to be uploaded on the class website. This course is taught once every five years to update what has been accomplished in the field. The perspective articles are a resource for future students, who take the following D1.1 and D1.2.



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: February 8th, 2018


  1. Introduction class and provide the agenda of the semester
    1. Class Engagement: Turkish lunch with students.
    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. Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics

      Rogers, J.A., Science, 327, 5973, 1603-1607, 2010.
    3. Paper 2:
    4. Epidermal Electronics

      Rogers, J.A., Science, 333, 6044, 838-843, 2011.
    5. Paper 3:


Class 2: February 15th, 2018


  1. Invited Speaker #1: Dr. John Rogers


Class 3: February 22nd, 2018


  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 2:
    2. Sustainably Powering Wearable Electronics Solely by Biomechanical Energy

      Wang, Z.A., Nature Communications, 7, 12744, 2016.


Class 4: March 1st, 2018


  1. Invited Speaker #2: Dr. Zhong Lin Wang


Class 5: March 8th, 2018


  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 2:
    2. Transformational Silicon Electronics

      Hussain, M.M., ACS Nano, 8, 2, 1468-1474, 2014.
    3. Paper 3:
    4. Paper Skin Multisensory Platform for Simultaneous Environmental Monitoring

      Hussain, M.M., Advanced Materials Technologies, 1, 1, 1600004, 2016.


Class 6: March 15th, 2018


  1. Invited Speaker #3: Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Hussain


Class 7: March 22nd, 2018


  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 3:
    2. 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: April 5th, 2018


  1. Invited Speaker #4: Dr. Canan Dagdeviren


Class 9: April 12th, 2018


  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 2:
    2. A Transparent Bending-Insensitive Pressure Sensor

      Someya, T., Nature Nanotechnology, 11, 472-478, 2016.
    3. Paper 3:
    4. Ultraflexible Organic Photonic Skin

      Someya, T., Science Advances, 2, 4, 2016.


Class 10: April 19th, 2018


  1. Invited Speaker #5: Dr. Takao Someya


Class 11: April 26th, 2018


  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. Piezoelectric Ribbons Printed onto Rubber for Flexible Energy Conversion

      McAlpine, M., Nano Letters, 10, 2, 524-528, 2010.
    3. Paper 3:
    4. Graphene-based Wireless Bacteria Detection on Tooth Enamel

      McAlpine, M., Nature Communications, 3, 763, 2011.


Class 12: May 3rd, 2018


  1. Invited Speaker #6: Dr. Michael McAlpine


Class 13: May 10th, 2018


  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.
    3. Paper 2:
    4. Electronics for the Human Body

      Rogers, J.A., Journal of the American Medical Association, 313, 6, 561-562, 2015.
    5. Paper 3:
    6. Wearable Electronics: Nanomesh On-Skin Electronics

      Rogers, J.A., Nature Nanotechnology, 12, 839-840, 2017.
    7. Paper 4:
    8. Toward Self-Powered Sensor Networks

      Wang, Z.L., Nano Today, 5,512-514, 2010.
    9. Paper 5:
    10. Preface to the Special Section on Piezotronics

      Wang, Z.L., Advanced Materials, 24, 34, 4629, 2012.
    11. Paper 6:
    12. New Wave Power

      Wang, Z.L., Nature, 542, 159-160, 2017.
    13. Paper 7:
    14. Epidermal Electronics: Skin Health Monitoring

      Lacour, S.P., Nature Materials, 14, 659-660, 2015.
    15. Paper 8:
    16. Flexible Electronics: Tiny Lamps to Illuminate the Body

      Someya, T., Nature Materials, 9, 879-880, 2010.
    17. Paper 9:
    18. Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You

      Someya, T., IEEE Spectrum, 51-56, 2013.
    19. Paper 10:
    20. The Rise of Plastic Bioelectronics

      Someya, T., Nature, 540, 379-385, 2016.
    21. Paper 11:
    22. Nanopiezoelectric Biointerfaces

      McAlpine, M., SPIE, 2013.
    23. Paper 12:
    24. Sensing Gastrointestinal Motility

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


Class 14: May 17th, 2018


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