Electrofluidics And Optofluidics: Bringing Moore's Law To Biomedical In Vitro Diagnostics And Life Sciences

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Electrofluidics And Optofluidics: Bringing Moore's Law To Biomedical In Vitro Diagnostics And Life Sciences 

Speaker：Dr. Wei-Jiang Guan  

Hoster：Prof. Qian Sun 

Time: Wednesday 9:30 a.m., 29th Oct. 

Place: A320 SINANO 

Electrofluidics And Optofluidics: Bringing Moore's Law To Biomedical In Vitro Diagnostics And Life Sciences 

Whereas the complex computation problems have been efficiently tackled by the exponentially growing number of transistors integrated into a single chip, solving the incredible medical problems (especially at the molecular level) still faces many challenges. As the driving forces for Moore’s law in microelectronics, micro- and nano-scale technologies also hold great promise for unraveling the mystery in life sciences and developing the next generation of high throughput, easy-to-use, and reliable biomedical diagnostic devices and systems.  

In this talk, I will discuss how microfluidic, microelectronic and optic technologies can be mingled together (electrofluidics and optofluidics) to develop lab-on-a-chip devices for highly sensitive, specific and reliable biosensing applications. Specifically, I will present three representative examples: (1) silicon-bio interfaces (electrofluidics), (2) aqueous mass spectrometer using RF fields and optical monitoring (electro-opto-fluidics), and (3) digital microfluidics for single molecule detection (opto-fluidics).  

Micro/nanotechnology-enabled devices and systems serve as a fascinating starting point to increase the bio-analytical power in an exponential fashion and to bring the Moore's law into biomedical diagnostics and life sciences. My vision is that the landscape for life science industry and biomedical in-vitro diagnostics is set to be transformed by continuing fundamental and translational electrofluidic and optofluidics research. 

Biography  

Dr. Weihua Guan received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Guan will join the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University as Assistant Professor from Jan. 2015. His research interests lie in the translational and fundamental understanding and application of microfluidic, microelectronic, and photonic technologies in lab-on-a-chip devices for biomedical diagnostics and life sciences. Dr. Guan is a recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship and Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.