IEEE Santa Clara Valley CPMT Society Chapter

"Design and Fabrication of MEMS for Applications in Adaptive Optics" -- Professor Joel Kubby, University of California at Santa Cruz

• Buffet dinner served at 6:00 PM ($20 if reserved by June 6); $10 for fulltime students and currently unemployed engineers; $5 more at the door; vegetarian available)

• Presentation (no cost) at 6:45 PM

  Please register in advance for this event, using our IEEE Council's DoubleKnot registration site, beginning March 10th.

  You may register yourself, plus others from your company/institution, for both dinner and presentation, or for only the presentation. You may make an on-line payment for the dinner, or arrange to pay at the door.

PLEASE RESERVE IN ADVANCE --
• For dinner and/or meeting: at the Doubleknot link above.
• Please reserve for "presentation-only", even if not attending the dinner. We want to assure we have enough seating.
Biltmore Hotel

• 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara, (408) 346-4620 -- click map at right.

  
  

  OVERVIEW:

      This talk will review the development of wide-field and confocal microscopes with direct wavefront sensing and adaptive optics for correcting aberrations when imaging through thick tissues (Drosophila embryos and mouse brain tissue). Similar to the wavefront measurement using 'artificial guide stars" in astronomical imaging, where atomic sodium in a layer in the Earth's mesosphere at an altitude of 95 km is excited at resonance by a high-power sodium laser, we have developed an approach for making wavefront measurements using implanted fluorescent reference beacons for use as artificial guide stars. Using this approach we show that the Strehl ratio can be improved by an order of magnitude when imaging through thick tissue samples.
      This "MEMS Application" talk expands on our April talk on Developments in MEMS Packaging. You may download those slides.

  Speaker Biography:
  

      Joel Kubby is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research is in the area of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) with applications in Optics, Fluidics and Bio-MEMS. Prior to joining the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2005, he was an Area Manager with the Wilson Center for Research and Technology and a Member of Technical Staff in the Webster Research Center in Rochester New York (1987-2005). While with Xerox he received a Xerox Excellence in Science and Technology Award. Prior to Xerox he was at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill New Jersey working in the area of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). While at Bell Labs he received an Exceptional Contribution Award. He has led a six-company industrial research consortium under the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop a new process for optical MEMS and has over 80 patents and over 40 journal publications. He is the co-chair of the SPIE Silicon Photonics conference and the MEMS Adaptive Optics conference. He likes to sneak around at night on full moons and construct pictures that are large enough to be seen on Google Earth.

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