MARCELO PISANI

Marcelo Pisani

Postdoctoral researcher

Room 7, Electrical Engineering West

University Park, PA 16802

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Web: http://www.personal.psu.edu/~mbp14

EDUCATION

Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering and Microsystems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne - EPFL

M.Sc.: Electrical Engineering, Polytechnical School, University of Sao Paulo

B.Sc.: Physics, University of Sao Paulo

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Microsystems Technologies: the fabrication, modeling, and characterization of micro and nanodevices and their and co-integration with integrated circuits.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

M. B. Pisani, S. A. Tadigadapa, "Microfabrication techniques for microfluidic devices", Book chapter 1 in “Methods in Bioengineering: Microfabrication and Microfluidics”, edited by J. D. Zahn and L. P. Lee, Artech House (ISBN 978-1-59693-400-9).

M. B. Pisani, P. Kao, S. A. Tadigadapa, "Bulk acoustic wave resonators for infrared detection applications", Proc. of the Transducers 2009 Conference, July 2009, Denver, CO, USA, p. 1959-1962.

M. B. Pisani, P. Kao, S. A. Tadigadapa, "Detection of ketone compounds using thermally sensitive quartz resonators", 9th Workshop on Biosensors and Bioanalytical microtechniques in environmental and clinical analysis (BBMEC'2009), Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 14-17, 2009.

R. Mahameed, N. Sinha, M. B. pisani, G. Piazza, "Dual-beam actuation of piezoelectric AlN RF MEMS switches monolithically integrated with AlN contour-mode resonators", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 18, no. 10, Oct. 2008, pp. 105011 , 11pp.

M. B. Pisani, G. Piazza, "Piezoelectric RF MEMS Resonators, Filters and Switches", Workshop on Advanced Topics on RF MEMS (invited talk), presented on the 2007 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC’2007), Salvador, Brazil, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2007.

C. Leroy, M. B. Pisani, C. Hibert, D. Bouvet, M. Puech and A. M. Ionescu, "High quality factor copper inductors integrated in deep dry-etched quartz substrates", Journal of Microsystem Technologies, vol. 13, no. 11 – 12, pp. 1483 – 1487, July, 2007.

A. Mehdaoui, M. B. Pisani, R. Fritschi, P. Ancey and A.M. Ionescu, "Vertical co-integration of AlSi MEMS tunable capacitors and Cu inductors for tunable LC blocks", Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 84, no. 5 – 8, May – Aug. 2007, pp. 1369 – 1373.

M. B. Pisani, C. Hibert, M. Pavius, D. Bouvet, P. Beaud, C. Dehollain and A.M. Ionescu, “High-Q copper / polyimide inductors: fabrication results and electrical performance analysis” in Advanced MEMS for RF and Millimeter Wave Communications, Series in Micro and Nanoengineering, no. 7, p. 214-221, edited by A. Müller, A. Rydberg and R. Plana, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, 2005 (ISBN 973-27-1110-8).

M. B. Pisani, C. Hibert, D. Bouvet, P. Beaud and A. M. Ionescu, “Copper / polyimide fabrication process for above RF IC integration of high-quality factor inductors”, Microelectronics Engineering, vol. 73 – 74, p. 474 – 479, 2004.

M. B. Pisani, P. Verdonck. "Characterization of SF6 plasmas by RF electrical measurements", In: SYMPOSIUM ON MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES, 17., Porto Alegre (RS, Brazil), Sept. 2002. Proceedings. São Paulo, Sociedade Brasileira de Microeletrônica [Brazilian Microelectronics Society], 2002.