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Congratulations to the 2021 Award Winners!

Online Quiz Winners

3rd Place - Lively Leopard - Matthias Neuenschwander from SWITZERLAND
2nd Place - Aquatic Macaw - Boshen Liang from BELGIUM
1st Place - Yellow Llama - Eren Aydin from THE NETHERLANDS

Image Winners

BUCKLING ARCHITECTURE AT NANO SCALE
Berke Demiralp, Bilkent University, TURKEY
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Buckling platform at nano scale composed of comb drive actuators, beam and electrical guides. Comb drive actuators and beam are colored with pink and electrical guides are colored with gold.

DEPTH OF FIELD
Matthias Neuenschwander, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), SWITZERLAND
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Silicon tips were created by under-etching an oxide mask in KOH. Scale bar: 2um.

THE MICRO-STRUCTURE IN CMOS-MEMS
Chia-Hung Yang, National Tsing Hua University, TAIWAN
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The complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) MEMS exploits the standard commercial semiconductor process platforms to implement many sensors and actuators.


Poster Winners

MULTIMODAL NEUROTRANSMITTER IMAGE SENSOR WITH LATERAL ION DIFFUSION SUPPRESSOR
Chinatsu Kawakami, Shirlyn Eng Shu Ying, Tomoko Horio, Hideo Doi, Yong-Joon Choi, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Toshihiko Noda, and Kazuaki Sawada
Toyohashi University of Technology, JAPAN

HIGH DURABILITY LATCH-LOCK BI-STABLE SWITCH ON Y-SHAPED CANTILEVER
Zili Tang1, Qi Tao2, Zehua Lan3, Zong Liu1, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya4, Xiaohong Wang3, and Man Wong1
1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG, 2Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, CHINA, 3Tsinghua University, CHINA, and 4Kyoto University, JAPAN

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 3D MICROELECTRODE ARRAYS (3D MEAS) WITH TRI-MODAL (ELECTRICAL, OPTICAL, AND MICROFLUIDIC) INTERROGATION OF ELECTROGENIC CELL CONSTRUCTS
Julia Freitas Orrico1, Avra Kundu1, Charles M. Didier1, Alexander Bosak2, Michael J. Moore2, and Swaminathan Rajaraman1
1University of Central Florida, USA and 2Tulane University, USA

MITIGATING HYSTERESIS EFFECTS IN OPEN-LOOP-DRIVEN PZT MEMS MICROMIRRORS WITH PIEZORESISTIVE SENSING
Paolo Frigerio1, Matteo Gianollo1, Giovanni Pezzi1, Luca Molinari2, Andrea Barbieri2, Marco Zamprogno2, Roberto Carminati2, Nicolň Boni2, and Giacomo Langfelder1
1Politecnico di Milano, ITALY and 2STMicroelectronics, ITALY

Oral Winners

IN-PLANE BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATORS USING 50NM-THICK NANO-LAMINATED FERROELECTRIC Hf0.5Zr0.5O2
Troy Tharpe, Faysal Hakim, and Roozbeh Tabrizian
University of Florida, USA

SELF-ACTUATED POLYMER-BASED CANTILEVERS WITH SHARP SILICON TIPS FOR HIGH-SPEED ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
Matthias Neuenschwander, Santiago H. Andany, Mustafa Kangül, Nahid Hosseini, and Georg E. Fantner
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), SWITZERLAND

NEEDLE-TYPE 5-µM PIXEL PITCH Ph-IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING OF PROTON EMISSIONS IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX
Kotaro Sakamoto1, Mai Madokoro1, Hiroshi Horiuchi2, Junko Ishida2, Tomoko Horio1, Yasuyuki Kimura1, Takeshi Hizawa1, Yong-Joon Choi1, Kazuhiro Takahashi1, Toshihiko Noda1, Junichi Nabekura2 and Kazuaki Sawada1
1Toyohashi University of Technology, JAPAN and 2National Institute for Physiological Sciences, JAPAN