Papers, Patents, and Awards
May 2011 - present
This is a current listing of my publications, patents, theses and awards. Last updated: September 2013.
This is a current listing of my publications, patents, theses and awards. Last updated: September 2013.
The purpose of this work is to create modal design rules for flexures. There has been extensive work on flexure layout for quasi-static motions (e.g. FACT), but this is insufficient for flexures with coupled motions, e.g. two stages that have to translate on the same axis in opposite directions. The thesis will cover how flexures can be used to decouple frequency modes while coupling mass motions. This page is under construction as the thesis is a work in progress.
NanoInk is a company that takes the concept of a quill pen and shrinks it down to the nanoscale. The pen is so small that it can deposit proteins in regular arrays. However, they have a hard time aligning the pen tip relative to their machine. My bachelor's thesis is about a machine that I designed to align the pen tips.
This album contains pictures of a DNA Imprinting stage (including a Nitrogen Chamber) that I designed and built in the semester of spring 2011.