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Ming C. Wu

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Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department

Co-Director
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Address:
University of California, Berkeley
EECS Department
261M Cory Hall #1770
Berkeley, CA 94720-1770

Phone: (510) 643-0808, FAX: (510) 643-6637

Email (the easiest way to reach me):
wu at eecs dot berkeley dot edu

Grant Administrator:
Mihir Shah, (510) 643-9506
mihir at eecs dot berkeley dot edu

Fall 2005 Class:
EE 232: Lightwave Devices
Mon/Wed 3:30-5:00, 293 Cory Hall

Office Hour: Tue/Thu: 1:00 - 1:30
(Additional OH by email appointment)

Research Group Website

Highlights

Ming Wu's group has recently developed a new image-driven optical manipulation tool called “optoelectronic tweezers”. Using light-induced dielectrophoresis on a photoconductor, virtual electrode pattern is generated by projecting an LED light through a DMD spatial light modulator. A single LED is capable of generating more than 15,000 individually addressable traps. The results was published in the July 21 issue of Nature titled, "Massively Parallel Manipulation of Single Cells and Microparticles Using Optical Images".

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Research Areas

  • Optical MEMS, Nanophotonics, Biophotonics, Optoelectronics, Microwave Photonics

Current Research Projects

  • NanoPhotonic MEMS
  • Si-based photonic integrated circuits
  • Optoelectronic tweezers
  • MEMS endoscopic optical coherence tomography and microscopy
  • Single-chip WDM switches and crossconnect (CSWDM)
  • High performance optically injection-locked semiconductor lasers
  • Balanced optoelectronic downconverting receiver for RF photonic networks
  • Optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) encoders

Education

  • B.S., National Taiwan University, 1983
  • M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1985
  • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1988

Awards

  • IEEE Fellow, 2002
    Citation "for his contributions to optical micro-electro-mechanical systems and high speed optoelectronics".
  • David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship
    Prof. Wu was awarded this prestigious fellowship from 1992 through 1997.

  • 1994 Meritorious Conference Paper Award
    Prof. Wu was presented this award by the Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (GOMAC) in 1994 for his paper.
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