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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10th - PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

PC100 MEMS-Enabled High Volume Commercialization Opportunities
Session Organizer and Chairman: Roger H. Grace, Roger Grace Associates

This all-day session entitled "MEMS-Enabled Commercialization Opportunities" will bring together leading researchers from academia, laboratories and industry to share with the attendees their MEMS development activities that are expected to enable a number of large volume applications in the near future. Although Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) have existed for many decades, it has only been recently that MEMS devices have enabled large volume aka killer applications. The automotive application sector saw the first major adoption of this technology in many of its systems. Today, the average car has over 30 MEMS devices with high end vehicles having close to 100 MEMS devices. Most recently, consumer electronics especially mobile phone have adopted MEMS into their designs to provide users with enhanced functionality, performance and convenience while assuring handset makers with well-defined product differentiation in the market. These "smart"…MEMS-enabled phones currently constitute approximately 25% of the total 1.1 billion mobile phone market but more interestingly, the smart phone sector is growing at double-digits rates. As a result of MEMS maturity, their prices have recently fallen rapidly which make them ideal for introduction into cost driven applications such as consumer products. The future of MEMS continues to look bright based on the highly expected commercialization of numerous large volume applications including consumer games, mobile phones, structural health monitoring through wireless autonomous wireless networks (WASN), medical diagnostics and point of care applications, guidance systems for military munitions and analytical instruments for environmental monitoring to name a few.

Roger Grace, the session organizer and chairman will present his well-regarded "MEMS Industry Commercialization Report Card" which will address the performance on the MEMS community in addressing 14 critical success factors for the year 2010. In addition to presentations that will address a number of MEMS and MEMS-based systems that are expected to be commercialized in the very near future, a panel discussion will conclude the event and will address the issue on the key barriers to the commercialization of MEMS. Panelists representing the technical and manufacturing/assembly/design software, packaging and test perspectives will serve on the panel. Audience participation is highly encouraged.

The session has been created to provide the technology community of investors, technical management, systems engineers and MEMS device designers with a concise and up-to-the-minute assessment of opportunities available for MEMS and MEMS-based systems solutions.

FINAL AGENDA:

Welcome and Introduction
     Presenter: R. Grace, Roger Grace Associates
MEMS as a Key Technology Driver for Product Innovation at CSEM (KEYNOTE)
     Presenter: N. de Rooij, CSEM (Switzerland)
MEMS-Based Systems Solutions: Exploiting the Path to Enhanced Product Differentiation and Increased Profit Margin
     Presenter: R. Grace, Roger Grace Associates
New High Volume MEMS Sensor Applications
     Presenter: D. Sandfox, Omron
Commercialization of High-Volume, Massively Paralleled MOEMS Arrays for Display Applications
     Presenter: R. Oden, Texas Instruments
Intelligent Medicines to Optimize Therapeutic Benefit
     Presenter: Mark Zdeblick, Proteus Biomedical, Inc.
High-Volume Opportunities for MEMS in Military Applications: Fuses and Guided Munitions
     Presenters: N. Tiliakos, G. Papadopoulos, D. Modroukas, ATK GASL
MEMS-based Energy Harvesting and Integrated Systems
     Presenter: R. Andosca, MEMGEN
MEMS-based Near Infrared Spectrometer for Portable Analytical Instrument Applications
     Presenter: D. Day, Thermo-Fisher
A Critical Assessment of Technologies for Electronic Compass Applications
     Presenter: Y. Cai, MEMSIC

PANEL: BARRIERS TO THE SUCESSFUL COMMERCIALIZATOIN OF MEMS …Presentations and Panelist Q&A
     Session Moderator: Roger H. Grace, Roger Grace Associates
Barriers to the Successful Commercialization of MEMS: The MEMS Commercialization Report Card 2010
     Presenter: R. Grace, Roger Grace Associates
Reducing Time- to -Market for MEMS-Based Products Using Software Co-Design Tools
     Presenter: M. Maher, SoftMEMS
Novel Wafer Level Packaging Solutions for Hermetic Sealing, Temperature Control and Vibration Isolation
     Presenters: J. Mitchell, S. Lee, ePack; K. Najafi, University of Michigan
MEMS: One Product…One Process-Fact or Fiction
     Presenter: M. Huff, MEMS Exchange
MEMS Equipment as an Enabler and Benefactor of 3-D Integration Technologies
     Presenter: W. Bair, SussMicrotech (Germany)
CMOS Integrated MEMS: Pros and Cons
     Presenter: I.Rutherford, Xfab (Germany)

Session Chair: Roger Grace has specialized in sensors for over 25 years with a focus on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology and is widely acknowledged internationally as one of the leaders and pioneers of this industry. He was awarded the Engineering Alumni of the Year Award in 2004 from Northeastern University. His educational background includes a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (as a Raytheon Fellow) and the MBA Program at the University of California Berkeley. He has authored over 60 technical papers; organized, chaired, and spoken at numerous international technical sessions; and authored the automotive section of the Battelle Frankfurt (Germany) market research report on Micromechanics. He is the co-author of the chapter "Commercialization of Microsystems" which appeared in the MANCEF International Microsystems Roadmap as well as the chapter "MEMS, Microsystems, Micromachines: Commercializing an Emergent Disruptive Technology" which appears in the SPIE publication MEMS and MOEMS: Technology and Applications. He is a frequent editorial contributor to Sensors, Small Times and the Micro Nano Newsletter of R&D Magazine. Mr. Grace has been quoted in many technical and business magazines including Forbes, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, EETimes, Small Times, Electronic Design and Sensors. Roger Grace Associates’s clients include National Science Foundation (US) , Bain Capital, Thomson (France), Electronic Corporation of Israel, FTEC (France), The French Government, Omron (Japan), State of Michigan, Sandia National Laboratories, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Applied Materials, Texas Instruments, Seagate, Oki Semiconductor (Japan), Triquint Semiconductor, GE NovaSensor, Coventor, H.P., B.F.Goodrich, Emerson and Cuming, Zyvex, EV Group (Austria), Applied Materials, Measurement Specialties, SiTime, Jenoptik Mikrotechnik (Germany) and many of the leading companies in the microsystems, semiconductor, capital equipment, microwave/R.F., Micro and Nanotechnology business. He has served on a number of industry committees including Chair of the Marketing Committee for the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) Sensor Manufacturers’ Division, and Chair of the Marketing Committee for the IEEE 1451 Smart Transducer Communications Interface Standard.  He is a co-founder and has served as Vice President and as President of the Micro and Nanotechnology Educational Foundation (MANCEF), Co-chair of the Commercialization of Microsystems and Nanosystems Conference (COMS) 2003 and 2004, and a member of the steering committee of the Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA) Conference in Berlin, Germany.  He was the Development Chairman of IEEE Electron Device Society’s Transducers 2003 held in Boston in June 2003.  He was the Chairman of the Marketing Committee for the CANEUS 2006 Conference (MEMS and Nanotechnology in Aerospace).  In 2006, Mr. Grace was a finalist in the Small Times Magazine "Advocate of the Year" award.

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PC200 CBRNE Sensors for Safety, Security and Sustainability
The ubiquitous presence of sensors for enhanced situational awareness for safety, security, and sustainability has necessitated a review of design, architecture, functionality, and interoperability of sensors. The focus of this tutorial is to address sensors and detectors that can be readily deployed in field; have high sensitivity, specificity, and selectivity; have multiple inputs to analyze multiple vectors; be able to analyze a mixed environment; and have networking capability for remote operation.

Sensors employing materials phenomena, and effects arising from advanced new materials, nanomaterials, multilayer semiconductor structures, specially formulated interfaces, and exploiting different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum will be discussed. Topics will include new phenomenon, sensing principles, and modeling; gas and chemical-biological sensors for homeland protection; advanced electrical, optical, mechanical, and electromagnetic sensors; the practical realization of those devices; and their integration into subsystems for system demonstrations. 

Presenter: Professor Ashok Vaseashta received his PhD from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA in 1990. Before becoming the Director of the Institute for Advanced Sciences Convergence and International Clean Water Institute, he served as Professor of Physics and Physical Sciences and Director of Research at the Nanomaterials Processing and Characterization Laboratories, Graduate Program in Physical Sciences at Marshall University. Concurrently, he holds a visiting Professorship at the 3 Nano-SAE Research Centre, University of Bucharest, Romania and serves as visiting scientist at the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of Nanoscale Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. In 2007-08, he was detailed as a William C. Foster to the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the US Department of State working with the Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism and Foreign Consequence Management program. Presently, he is Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology, New York Academy of Sciences and holds Franklin fellowship in the Office of the Bureau of Verification and Compliance Implementation/ISN at the US Department of State. He has earned several other fellowships and awards for his meritorious service including 2004/2005 Distinguished Artist and Scholar award. His research interests include counter-terrorism; advanced and nanomaterials for development of chemical-bio sensors/detectors; water safety and security; environmental pollution monitoring, detecting and remediation; and green nanotechnology. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of Green Nanotechnology. He authored over 200 research publications, edited/authored four books on nanotechnology, presented many keynote and lectures worldwide, served as the Director of three NATO Advanced Study Institutes and co-chaired an International Symposium on Nanotechnology. He served as a member of the US Department of Commerce, NIST and ANSI delegation to the U.K. representing the US position on Standards in Nanotechnologies at the inaugural meeting of the ISO/TAG to TC-229. He is a member of NATO-SET-040, an exploratory team panel investigating security and surveillance applications of nanotechnology. He serves as an expert counsel to the UNESCO, ObservatoryNANO and COSENT—southeast consortium on Nanotechnologies on NANO-Science and Technologies. He is an active member of several national and international professional organizations.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11th

9:00 am – 9:45 am

A 101 Remote Sensing in Severe Radiation Environments
This presentation discusses the development of the CIRIS (Combined NIR/MIR Imaging Spectrometer) for the NASA Jupiter Europa Orbiter mission. The technology has broad applicability to both remote sensing and in-situ applications. A detailed look at the motivations and requirements for the measurements will be presented. The operation of Fourier Transform Spectrometers (FTSs) will be discussed, not from a mechanical perspective, but from a signal processing perspective. The adverse effects of radiation on the FTS signal will be detailed, as well as the inherent immunity of FTS to disruptive noise. Application of this approach to synthetic and laboratory measurements with radiation will be discussed, with the resulting signal-to-noise demonstrated. These technologies can be applied in the nuclear power generation industry and in defense applications in addition to the space-based application that prompted their development.

Presenter: Ralph Levy is a recognized scientist, engineer and leader in operations, strategy, business process reengineering and research commercialization. His research and development background is in software, physics, biophotonics and analytical instrumentation with life science, remote sensing and analysis applications. Mr. Levy has a career of successful scientific and engineering projects with many federal agencies, national laboratories and major corporations. Currently, he is Chief Technology Officer at Quant Engineering, specializing in software for engineering and science. His responsibilities include analytical modeling; data acquisition, analysis and statistics; image processing and analysis; modeling of physical processes; design algorithms; process automation; numerical optimization and a whole array of numerical techniques.

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O201 True Image Sensor Fusion
One of the latest technology trends is combining images, each acquired in a different spectral range. The fusion of visual (VIS), shortwave infrared (SWIR) and longwave infrared (LWIR) imaging, or alternatively, of SWIR and LWIR, enhances the vision of a scene and can set thermal accents in SWIR or visual images. This is actually a sophisticated combination of the reflected light from the visual range and the emitted light from the LWIR range. From another point of view it delivers information about the form factor (VIS) of an object, the temperature (LWIR), and even about the humidity (SWIR) of an object. One obvious application is early fire detection. This method offers decisive vision enhancement, which is also needed in security applications.

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S301 Smart Sensors for the Smart Grid
Attendees will be given techniques for the design of smart sensors and how they can be used for smart grid and smart building applications. The design of smart sensors with networked digital output will be described. Next an overview of the smart grid will be given with an emphasis on the microgrid aspects which are intended to be implemented in commercial buildings and eventually at the residential level. Electrical metering, power quality sensors, and HVAC sensors will be discussed in more detail. The standards for metering and sensors being promoted by NIST will be explained. Several applications to the smart grid, such as demand-response and to smart buildings, such as lighting and air quality monitoring, will be considered. This session is intended for engineers with experience in conventional sensors who want to understand their application to smart grid and smart buildings.

Presenter: Dr. Darold Wobschall is founder and President of Esensors Inc, a company specializing in networked sensors. He was a long-time member of the EE faculty of the University at Buffalo where he worked in the area of sensor development and taught courses on electronic instruments, sensors and bioengineering. He has given seminars on sensor-related topics at national meetings for many years and is the author of a book on electronic instruments, holder of several patents and has written over 60 technical papers. Currently he is developing a series of networked sensors, including Internet sensors (Websensors), wireless sensors and gas monitors. As a member of IEEE 1451 working groups, Dr. Wobschall is implementing open-source protocols for smart transducers.

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W401 Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks for System Health Monitoring
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) based on the IEEE 802.15.4 Personal Area Network (PAN) standard provide the inherent fault tolerance required for aerospace applications. The Discovery and Systems Health Group at NASA Ames has been developing WSN technology for use aboard aircraft and spacecraft for system health monitoring of structures and life support systems. This session will present the architecture and technical feasibility of creating fault-tolerant WSNs for aerospace applications based on the application of the technology to a Structural Health Monitoring testbed. The interim results of WSN development and testing, including the software architecture for intelligent sensor management, will be discussed. Initial certification measurement techniques and test results gauging WSN susceptibility to radio frequency interference will be introduced as key challenges for technology adoption. A candidate Developmental and Flight Instrumentation implementation using intelligent sensor networks for wind tunnel and flight tests will be presented as a guide to understanding key aspects of the aerospace vehicle design, test, and operations lifecycle.

Presenter: Richard L. Alena is a Computer Engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Mr. Alena worked on the Ground Data System and performed Communications Analysis during operations for the LCROSS Lunar Mission. He was the co-lead for the Advanced Diagnostic Systems for International Space Station (ISS) Project, developing model-based diagnostic tools for space operations. He was the chief architect of a flight experiment conducted aboard Shuttle and Mir using laptop computers, personal digital assistants and servers in a wireless network for the ISS. He was also the technical lead for the Databus Analysis Tool for on-orbit diagnosis of ISS avionics and group lead for Intelligent Mobile Technologies developing planetary exploration systems for field simulations. Mr. Alena holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the winner of an Ames Honor Award for Engineering in 2010, the NASA Silver Snoopy Award in 2002, a NASA Group Achievement Award for his work on the ISS Phase 1 Program Team and a Space Flight Awareness Award in 1997.

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10:00 am – 10:45 am

A102 Sensor System Development for Aerospace Applications at NASA Glenn Research Center
Both space exploration and aeronautic aircraft operations require a range of sensing technologies to monitor conditions. Mr. Hunter will discuss efforts to produce microsensor platforms and smart sensor systems that can be tailored to measure a range of chemical species. Applications include leak detection, engine emissions monitoring, fire detection, human health monitoring, and environmental monitoring. Learn how the introduction of nanomaterials into microsensor platforms could significantly improve sensor performance. This talk also will cover harsh environment, high-temperature sensor system development. Areas of work include silicon carbide (SiC) based electronic devices; thin film thermocouples, strain gages, and heat flux sensors; chemical species emissions sensors; and MEMS. Examples will be given of harsh environment sensor systems, microsensor platform technology, smart sensor systems, application testing, and efforts to integrate and control nanostructures into sensor structures.

Presenter: Dr. Gary W. Hunter is Lead for Intelligent System Hardware and the Technical Lead for the Chemical Species Gas Sensors Team in the Sensors and Electronics Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center. He has been involved with the design, fabrication and testing of sensors for nearly 20 years for a range of applications, including the use of micro- and nano-technology as well as the integration of sensor technology into smart systems. He has been co-recipient of two R&D 100 Awards for one of the most significant inventions/products of the year, two NASA Turning Goals into Reality Awards and one Nano 50 Award. He has been involved in a range of activities involving the development, demonstration and application of sensor technology. He is former Chair of the Sensors Division of the Electrochemical Society.

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O202 Airborne Augmented Reality and Low-Cost INS/GPS Sensors
Augmented Reality (AR) systems that integrate real-time video with digital mapping data are finding use in a wide range of airborne surveillance applications. The availability of low-cost components has increased the affordability of these systems for civil applications including police/fire patrol and dispatch, police pursuit, pipeline monitoring, and disaster relief. This session will focus on a low-cost INS/GPS system solution that incorporates inertial sensors and OEM GPS electronics into a rugged airborne package. The presenter will show how this AR system was successfully demonstrated in a helicopter – providing unprecedented situational awareness to the on-board operator in an urban environment, with real-time day and night vision camera operation.

Presenter: Tom Suita provides application engineering services for all of the navigation, guidance and stabilization products at KVH Industries. He has an MSEE from Northeastern University and a BSEE from the University of Rhode Island. Previously at Northrop Grumman, he directed the development of the National Missile Defense EKV Interceptor IMU. He has over 30-years experience in developing and integrating systems for major aerospace programs, including the B-2 Bomber, E-3 AWACS and NASA Space Shuttle.

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S302 Recent Advances in MEMS Motion Sensors
In the last few years, MEMS accelerometers have been implemented in a large number of consumer and industrial products including mobile phones, game controllers, laptop computers, home appliances, and cars. This impressive penetration of MEMS accelerometers, combined with advances in MEMS technology, has led to the development of reliable and affordable MEMS gyroscopes. These advances have not only further accelerated the implementation of inertial sensors, but also have enabled new applications. This has contributed significantly to unprecedented market trends and heightened customer expectations for higher-performing, lower-cost, smart, and more powerful inertial sensors. This presentation provides an overview of these advances in MEMS inertial sensor technologies, and includes a brief look into new products and solutions on the horizon.

Presenter: Jay Esfandyari has more than 18 years of industry experience in Semiconductor Technology, Integrated Circuits Fabrication Processes, MEMS development and fabrication, and strategic MEMS market and business development. In the capacity of MEMS Product Marketing Manager at STMicroelectronics, Jay Esfandyari has developed new markets for MEMS products and achieved multi-million dollar business opportunities. In his previous roles, Jay worked closely with customers to develop custom MEMS products, developed models to describe the physics of defect generation in silicon wafer during device fabrication processes, created solutions to perform analysis and computer simulation to improve the quality of silicon wafers.

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W402 Problems of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks
In this session you will learn about two advances designed to maximize the lifetime of autonomous wireless sensors networks. Monitoring moving objects by wireless sensor networks creates problems related to energy efficiency and measurement redundancy. Each moving object can be discovered at the same time by dozens of sensors located in a protected area. Dr. Bordetsky’s team has developed an algorithm that enables turning on/off sensors depending on how many objects are moving through the area and their proximity to the sensors. Another new algorithm allows controlling self-adjustment of a network topology during a process to conserve energy. Calculation procedures and efficiency of the algorithms along with their applications will be discussed.

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11:00 am – 11:45 am

A103 U.S. Army ARDEC’s Collaborative Decision Support System
US Army Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC) focuses on researching, developing, testing, evaluating, and deploying "dual-use" (military and civilian) decision-support, sensor, and security technologies. This session will highlight the Army ARDEC's Collaborative Decision Support System (CDSS), a government developed, owned, and maintained software system, comprised of a toolset of mature technologies to enable shared situational awareness. The CDSS is based on an open architecture utilizing COTS decision-aiding components and tools to ensure interoperability and automated information sharing with other decision support systems, sensors, and devices. Components of the CDSS suite have demonstrated the integration of anti-terrorism sensor technologies such as sonar, acoustic, optical/IR, nuclear, and radar. The system can scale up to provide a common operating picture for large, sensor-saturated environments.

Presenter: Eugene Olsen is Acting Chief of the Homeland & Interactive Technology Division, Weapons & Software Engineering Center, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. In this capacity, he leads a 25-person team with a mission to investigate and develop technologies, processes and concepts to improve our civilian and military leaderships' abilities to share critical operational information with Joint, Allied and Coalition forces, other government agencies and first responders. Due to the extensive interagency nature of the Division's research areas, Mr. Olsen administers numerous cooperative research agreements and other formal and informal partnerships with Public, Private and Academic organizations to provide integrated, scalable and cost-effective solutions for securing the Homeland. Major thrusts under his guidance include Military-to-Civil Information Sharing, Military-to-Civil Network/Sensor Interoperability, Technology Visualization, Interactive Training Systems, Joint Operating Concept development and Multi-agency Technology Testbeds. Mr. Olsen started his professional career with the Army in 1984 as a Field Artillery officer, leading and training special weapons, light artillery and fire support teams in Europe and the Pacific. In 1988 he transferred to the Military Intelligence Corps and served for the next 18 years in leadership, staff and training support positions at Tactical, Operational and National level commands. Mr. Olsen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from St. John's University and is a graduate of the National Defense Intelligence College's Post-Graduate Intelligence Program. He is the recipient of the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Order of St. Barbara award and numerous other Army awards and decorations.

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O203 New Applications for Electromagnetic Field Sensing
New ways of viewing sensing using electromagnetic fields will be presented. Inductive coupling of a tuned circuit has been a known phenomenon in transformer design for years. What has not been explored is the effect the presence of various materials has on this inductive coupling, and how this phenomenon can be captured to aid in inspection of materials. Utilization of old technologies applied in a new way will allow novel and useful methodologies to image graphite composite, metals, and plastics. A non-contact sensing method allows for rapid scanning of many materials and configurations. This technology may be applied as a standalone method or used to augment existing techniques.

Presenter: Kevin McGushion is CEO of Exel Orbital Systems, Inc. which he founded in 1989 on an invention which made ultra-high purity orbital welding in the Semiconductor, Biopharmaceutical and Aerospace industries. This invention lead to many other inventions ranging in application from fluid handling components in the Semiconductor and Biopharmaceutical Industries to a magnetic imaging system and a novel manufacturing method for aircraft structural beams. One of the premiere inventions has been recommended for use by Boeing in its RS68 Rocket Engine as well as passing 90/95 POD/CL acceptance criteria. Additionally, the imaging system has proved to be a superior device for imaging graphite composite for Northrop Grumman's F-35 Program. Currently, Exel manufactures a standard product line of robotic orbital welding equipment which is sold throughout the world and has developed numerous other technologies for companies such a revolutionary laser particle counter for Boeing's Satellite Division. Mr. McGushion also holds many US Patents with many more patents pending in various fields ranging from imaging to propulsion technology as well as a means of manufacturing structural beams for aircraft.

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S303 Microlevel Measurement Using Ultrasonic Sensors
Numerous advances have been made in distance measurement using high-frequency ultrasonic sensors. Limits of ultrasonic technology have included contact versus non-contact of material, sensor size, durability, and environmental considerations. Advances in electronics and embedded microprocessors have allowed the use of ultrasonic sensors in applications never before considered. Discussion will be focused on the advantages and uses of the latest ultrasonic measurement sensors. Multiple object recognition, narrowing of beam angle, and two-dimensional mapping of targets using a single ultrasonic pulse from a single sensor also will be discussed.

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W403 The Impact of Wireless on Data Acquisition
Wireless communication capability has revolutionized data acquisition. Impact detection and location is no exception to this due to the simplified system design and integration that it provides. However, the use of wireless data acquisition equipment requires a change in thinking about how to approach instrumenting platforms and gathering the resulting data. This talk examines how wireless capability can improve the capturing of data from highly dynamic events. It also addresses the challenges associated with using these new methods for acquiring data.

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12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

A104 Harsh Environment Sensors for Sensing High Pressures and Temperatures
Sensors that can perform reliable health management under harsh environmental conditions, with multiple degrees of freedom, are a challenging task. The presentation will focus on the development of an accurate and reliable piezoelectric quartz sensor that can precisely achieve this task. Quartz possesses excellent mechanical and electrical properties. It can withstand more than 1,724 MPa of pressure and its curie point is well beyond 500oC. Quartz is anisotropic and is a brittle material. Anisotropy causes difficulty in the design but at the same time provides additional degrees of freedom to tune the performance of the sensor to specific requirements. Mr. Kirikera will explain how multiphysics tools were applied to understand the anisotrophy, and will share some of the efficient design and manufacturing techniques used to successfully commercialize the sensor.

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O204 Infrared Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Trace Gas Sensing
Zyberwear and the University of Central Florida are collaborating to develop a compact commercial system for ultra-trace gas and vapor detection based on intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy. The technology integrates an infrared quantum cascade laser chip, an external optical cavity for the laser, a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer to spectrally analyze the laser output, a detector, a pump and flush system to control the ambient inside the cavity, and data acquisition & control electronics. The system has progressed from bread board to brass board in a laboratory setting. Dr. Peale will describe how this complex electro-optical device with several interdependent subsystems is being engineered to ready it for field testing and initial commercial sales. Applications include explosives and chem/bio detection, biomedical breath analysis, planetary exploration, Earth science, and space operations safety.

Presenter: Robert Peale received a PhD in Physics from Cornell Univeristy in 1990. He has been on the faculty at the University of Central Florida Physics department since 1991. He has spent summers on various operations safety engineering projects at Kennedy Space Center and on electro-optical sensors at the Air Force Research Lab. He works closely on infrared technology development with industry, particularly with his partner on this project Zyberwear Inc.

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S304 Developments in Rotary Sensing Technologies for Medical & Robotics Applications
Position sensor technologies on the market today have costly sensing components that often are not ideally suited to the demands of new robotic and medical applications. Limitations include lack of customization, large package size(s), and environmental, durability, and price issues. This presentation will review the current technologies used in shaft angle sensing applications, summarize the key design attributes of both absolute and incremental single turn angle sensors, and propose new technology concepts to overcome existing design issues. You can apply this valuable information to shaft angle sensing, rotary sensing, absolute position and other limited angle pivot point /articulated arm position sensing needs.

Presenter: Paul Cain is the North American General Manager of Piher International Corporation. Prior to joining Piher, Mr. Cain was Director of Sales and Marketing at BEI Duncan Electronics, a similar manufacturer of position and steering sensors for the automotive, military and heavy equipment markets. Prior to BEI, he worked for TRW Corporation and TRW Automotive for 13 years and has held a number of roles in the airbag sensing, occupant restraints and operations, including Director of Operations for TRW Steering and Suspension in Sydney, Australia.

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W404 Energy-Harvesting Platforms for Zero-Power Sensing and Reporting
Learn about advancements in energy harvesting, low-power microcontrollers, and low-power wireless-communication technologies, and how they can be used to extract power from the environment to make self-sustaining, perpetual zero-power solutions a reality. This session will explore energy-harvesting technologies and introduce extremely low-power microcontroller evaluation platforms that enable sensing and reporting systems powered solely through environmental sources, such as radio waves and light.

Presenter: Jason Tollefson is Product Marketing Manager for Microchip Technology's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division, specializing in low-power products. His responsibilities include new product definition and low-power marketing for Microchip's PIC18 and PIC24 product lines. Jason holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, and a MBA from the University of Phoenix. Jason worked in new-product development for eight years before moving to marketing.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12th

8:00 am – 8:45 am

A105 Portable Measurement and Instrumentation Systems for Mission Critical Applications
Product manufacturers use portable, self-powered instruments to measure the dynamic and atmospheric hazards present during the movement of their valuable assets, providing scientific metrics used to determine acceptance criteria. Stringent quality requirements dictate that providers of testing equipment instruments thoroughly prove their accuracy, reliability, and repeatability prior to being approved for critical applications. Two methodologies will be presented on how to measure environmental hazards and seamlessly include those hazards in laboratory physical testing. Another methodology to be presented is how to measure the environment, design products with durability to withstand those environments, and when needed, build protective systems of containment/packaging for those products so they survive without risk of failure.

Presenter: Eric Joneson, Vice President of Technology, Lansmont Corporation is a packaging expert who received his B.S. in Packaging from Michigan State University. He is a member and Immediate Past Chair of the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA), International Association of Packaging Research Institutes (IAPRI), Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP), Association of American Railroads (AAR), MSU Consortium for Distribution Packaging representative, MSU Packaging Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is a frequent speaker presenting numerous technical presentations as well as a published author.

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O205 Biomimetic Fusion that Enhances Sensor Performance in a Bimodal Surveillance System
Discover how the performance of engineered systems can be improved by mimicking the way the brain functions. BU researchers have developed new algorithms, based on biological attentional processes, for synergistically fusing acoustic and optical sensory inputs in surveillance systems. Currently, manual perimeter defense surveillance systems using more than one sensory modality combine different sensors' information to corroborate findings by other sensors and to add data from a second modality. In contrast to how conventional systems work, animals use information from multiple sensory inputs in a way that improves each sensory system's performance. This presentation will demonstrate how performance is enhanced when information in one modality is used to focus processing in the other modality (a form of attention).

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S305 Development and Application of a Compact MEMS Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer with High Transmit/Receive Efficiency
The subject invention represents a significant advance in the ultrasonic transducer domain, enabling a new class of industrial, consumer, and scientific applications which were previously unachievable. This talk will cover current ultrasonic transducer technologies and the motivation for the development of a MEMS alternative; describe the new product’s operating principles, features, and performance; and demonstrate specific applications including low-cost proximity and flow sensing.

Presenter: Dr. Osvaldo Buccafusca is the Lead Technologist - MEMS transducers at Avago Technologies. His career focus has been the development of state-of-the-art products and breakthrough solutions. Before joining Avago Technologies, he was the principal engineer in the Lightwave Division at Agilent Technologies. His award-winning Test and Measurement products enabled measurements of low jitter (< 200fs) electrical signals and high bit rate (up to 320GB/s) optical communication signals. Dr. Buccafusca authored 40 journal and conference papers on topics such as ultrafast phenomena, semiconductor physics, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) and MEMS. He has served as technical reviewer for various Physics and Engineering publications and as the chairman of the IEEE Centennial Subsection. In his spare time, Dr. Buccafusca directs his creativity to conceive digital art that has been exhibited in Colorado and New York galleries.

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W405 Development of a Wireless System for Real Time Control
This session will address the design challenges associated with development of a wireless sensor interface suitable for real time control. Starting with the challenge (problem statement), it will walk you through the wireless technology evaluation, design and implementation issues (including user concerns), and the embodiment of a solution. In addition to sharing the development process, working hardware will be presented that demonstrates the real time control system along with discussions of future or alternative implementations that could use this same approach.

Presenter: Scott Orlosky has a BS in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Webb Institute and an MS in Manufacturing and Control Theory from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked at BEI for over 20 years and has experience in product development, engineering management, sales and marketing management and holds four patents related to digital accelerometer design and manufacture. He has written papers on optical encoders and inertial sensing technologies and is currently managing the Intellectual Property assets for Custom Sensors and Technologies as well as Trade Compliance teams at BEI Sensors.

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9:00 am – 9:45 am

A106 Instrument Sensor and Payload Alliance
The NASA Instrument Capability Study (NICS) established a foundation for objective analysis of instrument/sensor and payload development. As a result of the study findings, the NICS team recommended establishment of a strategic instrument/sensors and payload capability alliance dedicated to improving the capability to design and build quality instruments/payloads within cost and schedule constraints. This session will provide an overview of that alliance, the Instrument Sensor and Payload Alliance (ISPA). The ISPA will help facilitate understanding of instrument/payload development issues, provide a forum for sharing expertise, and allow for the creation of, and access to, a multi-agency skills database. The ISPA also will provide access to instrument survey results and recommendations, and allow sharing of instrument/payload development training opportunities.

Presenter: Richard Barney is the Division Chief in the Instrument Systems and Technology Division (ISTD) at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The ISTD provides advanced instrument technologies and discipline support in Optics, Cryogenic Systems, Detector Systems, Lasers & Electro-Optics and Microwave Instrument Technology development. The division is also responsible for Instrument Management and Instrument System Engineering for in-house flight instrument development. Throughout his 25-year career at NASA, Mr. Barney has led instrument system/subsystem teams from around the world in the development of new technologies and state-of-the-art space flight instruments. These instruments have flown aboard several NASA Space and Earth science missions such as the Cosmic Background Explorer, Broad Band X-Ray Telescope, Cassini-Huygens, Spitzer Telescope, Astro-E, Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite Hubble Space Telescope and the recently launched Messenger mission to Mercury. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1986 while participating in the Cooperative Education program with NASA. He also earned a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University in 1992. After spending eight years as an Optical Engineer developing instrument components for several flight missions, he led the in-house development of the Cassini/Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). After the Cassini launch, he led the newly formed Flight Instrument Development Office at GSFC before being selected for his current position. Mr. Barney holds two US Patents and has been honored with several awards including two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals.

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O206 ARINC 818 for High Speed Mission Critical Sensors
AOriginally developed as a mission critical interface for cockpit video systems, the ARINC 818 Fibre Channel protocol is being adopted in both commercial and military aerospace platforms for sensors, cameras, and mission processors, and in medical imaging applications. ARINC 818 offers high speed, fiber optics, and low latency in a network-capable sensor interface. This presentation will provide an introduction to ARINC 818, an overview of the architecture, and examples of how it is used for different types of interfaces: cameras, IR sensors, radar, mission processors, and video.

Presenter: Tim Keller (MSEE) is Director of Product Development at Great River Technology. He served on the ARINC 818 committee and drafted key sections of the specification. Prior to joining Great River Technology in 2005, Mr. Keller worked for 16 years as a control systems engineer for real-time embedded systems at Honeywell.

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S306 Status and Motion Activated Radiofrequency Tag (SMART) Sensors
SMART clamp sensors are being developed for a wide range of aerospace, marine, industrial, and consumer applications. This session will present the concept and benefits of SMART sensors compared to other sensors, e.g., an application where you need 10,000 sensors to monitor the status of 10,000 components such as clamps or ties. The data acquisition system to read and assess the signals from 10,000 typical sensors would require time, multichannel capability, and algorithms to identify the one or two clamps in need of repair. In contrast, SMART sensors can be scanned in a few seconds with a simple handheld reader. The session will cover the different methods of reversible deactivation of RFID tags that were investigated and the design of the optimized SMART sensor based on both passive and active RFID tags. It also will describe how simple changes in the design of the sensor enable it to sense and permanently indicate pressure changes, impact, heat, corrosive gases, wear, cracks in composites, etc. without any power requirements, making it suitable for an incredible array of applications – from E-passports to car bumpers to football helmets.

Presenter: Robert Kauffman is the Group Leader of the Fluids Analysis Laboratory of the Nonmetallic Materials Division at the University of Dayton Research Institute. He has 30 years of experience in performing research in the areas of fuels, inks, lubricants, refrigerants and polymers. During the past six years, he has been supervising and performing research on aging aircraft electrical wiring sponsored by the FAA. During this research, Mr. Kauffman has identified and helped study electrochemical reactions capable of providing an ignition source for aircraft fuel tanks, has developed self-repairing wire insulations for damaged electrical wires and is currently developing SMART sensors for aerospace, industry and consumer use. His research has lead to numerous US and international patents.

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W406 A Systems Approach to Using MEMS Sensors for Applied Wireless Sensor Networks
The presentation will address a number of wireless sensor based applications that have been developed at Memsic for various clients, including: The Jindo bridge in Korea, which represents a structural health monitoring application developed in conjunction with the Unversity of Illinois Urbana Champaigne uses high performance Mems accelerometers to measure the vibrational spectral signature of the bridge under a wide range of excitations due to vehicular traffic as well as strong weather conditions. In addition to the accelerometers, the system includes custom signal processing embedded software and uses a wireless mesh network with special data synchronization algorithms to correlate the measured waveforms in time and send the aggregated data to the analysis node to be presented to the client. Another application is for a distributed wireless network is the monitoring of microclimates in high value crops such as wine grapes or nut orchards. The wireless nodes measure soil moisture, leaf wetness, temperature, humidity, and several other parameters. These parameters are forwarded to the access point and displayed to the end user in multiple formats, including trend analysis. Certain models have been incorporated to provide alerts under certain conditions such as frost danger, risk of pathogen infection (i.e. powdery mildew), and others. The presentation will address the process by which Memsic worked with the users of the solution to address critical requirements of the application.Content Level: All

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1:45 pm – 2:30 pm

A107 Testing of High-Shock Accelerometers in Simulated Environments
This presentation describes test results for a Meggitt Sensing Systems’ Endevco® damped, high-shock MEMS accelerometer with a 20,000-g full-scale range. The testing was performed at the Fuzes Branch, Munitions Directorate, of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Eglin Air Force Base. The purpose of the testing was to characterize the performance of the accelerometer, and to evaluate a new fixture for use in testing high-shock accelerometers housed in surface mount technology (SMT) leadless chip carrier (LCC) packages. Preliminary prototype data taken in laboratory environments are presented as a baseline, including sensitivity, offset, linearity, samping, overrange, and aurvivability. These data are then supplemented and compared with additional data obtained from Very-High-G shock testing. The suitability of this unit for making reliable high-g shock measurements in a harsh shock environment is evaluated.

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O207 Methods of Simultaneous Measurement of Strain and Temperature Using a Brillouin DSTS
Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensors historically use the Brillouin phenomenon. Brillouin based distributed fibre optic strain/temperature sensors have been commercially available since 1996. The Brillouin back reflection shift is directly related to the acoustic condition of the fibre (phonon) as it interacts with the inserted light (photon). One of the great challenges when using a Brillouin system is that the Brillouin frequency shift has two components: strain and temperature. Commercial deployment is limited by the technological challenge of separating changes in Brillouin Frequency associated with Δε (change in strain) from ΔT (change in temperature). This session will discuss innovations in Brillouin DSTS design, fibre selection, methodology of fibre deployment and other techniques that enable independent and simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature.

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S307 Tactile Sensors for System Health Monitoring
Tactile sensors can be used across industries to monitor system health by detecting "error" or "undesired" states and triggering an action or series of actions to correct the issue. Due to their paper-thin profile, tactile sensors are unobtrusive in applications where space is at a premium, and, unlike accelerometers, they directly measure forces. This presentation will give an overview of force sensing technologies, cover tactile sensing theory and application considerations, and spotlight case studies in the industrial, medical devices, and more."

Co-presenter: Thomas Papakostas, VP of Technology at Tekscan, Inc. is responsible for the development of new products and technologies as well as the optimization of Tekscan's core sensor technology. He has more than 12 years of design, innovation and strategic planning experience and has authored and reviewed numerous articles, patents and presentations. He is a pioneer in establishing novel markets for tactile sensors. Co-presenter: Mark Lowe is VP of Sensor Business for Tekscan. He joined the company in 1997 as Applications and Test Group Manager before advancing to Director of Engineering in 2000, then to Director of Sensor Business in 2002. In four years as Senior Mechanical Engineer at Geo-Centers, Mr. Lowe was responsible for leading a variety of optically based sensor development projects. And in his four years at Southwest Research Institute as a Research Engineer, he was responsible for leading development projects and supporting mechanical design and analysis.

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W407 Smart Wireless Sensor Systems for Space Vehicle Monitoring
Combining onboard intelligence with low-power wireless capabilities helps to gather and disseminate data efficiently in challenging applications such as aerospace vehicle monitoring. This session will discuss the progression of wireless instrumentation systems aboard the space shuttle and International Space Station. Topics will include size, weight, and power; wireless communication speed vs. power consumption; onboard processing capability vs. transmission of raw data; and operating concepts related to various data acquisition approaches (impacts on hardware, software, infrastructure, and ground support personnel and crew time).

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2:45 pm – 3:30 pm

A108 Eddy Current Sensors and Sensor Arrays for Graphite Fiber/Epoxy NDE and Diagnostics
Modern aircraft and next-generation spacecraft increasingly rely on composite components due to their excellent specific strength, stiffness, and ability to tailor their properties. However, life management for composites is in its infancy compared to metal. This is partly due to the need for improved quality, damage, stress, and temperature measurement capabilities in composites. In this session you will learn about advances in the application of novel eddy current sensors and sensor arrays with linear drive windings for nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring of graphite fiber/epoxy composite systems. It will include a review of successful implementations, such as inspection of the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon Composite (RCC) leading edge of the Space Shuttle at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Results from two SBIR programs will be discussed: one focused on the development of micromechanical models to relate measured sensor responses to composite constituent properties and the second on application of the eddy current sensors to stress monitoring and damage in composite overwrapped pressure vessels.

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O208 Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure Using Fiber Optic Sensors
Over the years optical fiber sensors have seen increased acceptance and widespread use for a variety of industrial, civil, process control, and defense applications. Given their EM immunity, intrinsic safety, small size & weight, and capability to perform multi-point and multi-parameter sensing remotely, makes them an attractive, flexible, reliable and unique sensing solution. Their use and adoption continues to increase and fiber sensors have become a "go-to" technology in several harsh environment or hazardous applications in the oil & gas industry, mining, electric utilities, marine, and several others. This talk will describe the basic operating principles, types, characteristics and advantages of optical fiber sensors—in particular, optical fiber Bragg gratings (FBG)—and describe the required building blocks that make up a FBG Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system. To illustrate the benefits and practical uses of FBG sensors, several real life SHM application examples for bridges, pavements, pipelines, wind turbines and other civil infrastructures will be presented.

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S308 TBD

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W408 TBD

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