Solid State Circuits Society

Applications of semiconductor (silicon and beyond-silicon) chips in bio-, pharmaceutical-, and oil-well technology

Applications of semiconductor (silicon and beyond-silicon) chips in bio-, pharmaceutical-, and oil-well technology

Speaker: Dr. Donhee Ham, Harvard University

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Abstract:

This talk would share a number of recent, not-yet-published, research works from Dr. Ham’s lab (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/~donhee). Dr. Ham and his team recently developed RF/mixed-signal silicon integrated circuits that can, in conjunction with the physics of spin resonance, probe complex molecular structures at atomic resolution, which may open up exciting vistas in several branches of science and technology, ranging from high-speed pharmaceutical compound screening to to oil-well fluid characterization for petroleum exploration. This will be the first topic of the talk. The lecture  will then proceed on CMOS-assisted nano-bio interface array for neurotechnology, as well as CMOS and graphene DNA microarray. Finally, recent development of electrodynamic circuits with graphene for applications in microwave (Ghz) and far-infrared frequencies will be discussed.

Bio: 

Donhee Ham is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and EE at Harvard University. He earned a B.S. degree in physics from Seoul National University, where he graduated with the Presidential Prize and the Physics Gold Medal. Following a 1.5-year service in the Republic of Korea Army, he went to Caltech for graduate training in physics. There he worked on general relativity and gravitational astrophysics under Professor Barry Barish while in physics, and later obtained a Ph.D. in EE in 2002 winning the Charles Wilts Prize awarded for the best thesis in EE. His doctoral work examined the statistical physics of electrical circuits. He was the recipient of the IBM Doctoral Fellowship, Li Ming Scholarship, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, IBM Research Design Challenge Award, and the fellow of the Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies. He shared Harvard’s Hoopes prize with W. Andress. He was recognized by MIT Technology Review as among the world’s top 35 young innovators in 2008 (TR35). He was a Harvard Yearbook favorite professor for three years (2011, 2012, and 2013), and was one of 8 Harvard Thinks Big speakers in 2012 (8 Harvard faculty chosen by college-wide votes). He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Solid-State Circuits Society. His work experiences include Caltech-MIT LIGO, IBM T. J. Watson, Consulting Visiting Professorship at POSTECH, Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Seoul National University, IEEE conference technical program committees including the IEEE ISSCC and ASSCC, and advisory board for the IEEE ISCAS. He served as a guest editor for the IEEE JSSC. He is an associate editor for IEEE TBioCAS.

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