Ming C. Wu

Professor

Research Areas

• Physical Electronics (PHY)
• Optoelectronics; MEMS; Nanotechnology

Research Centers

• Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC)
• Center for Cell Control (CCC)
• Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured SemiconductoR Technologies (CONSRT)
• Microfabrication Lab (Microlab)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2008)

• EE 105. Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, TuTh 330-5P, 102 Moffitt

Biography

Ming C. Wu is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC). He received his Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley in 1988. He was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (1988-1992) and professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA (1993-2004). He co-founded OMM in 1997 to commercial MEMS optical switches. He has published 140 journal and 300 conference papers, six book chapters, and was granted 16 U.S. patents. Prof. Wu is a Fellow of IEEE. He received a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1992, and Engineering Excellence Award from Optical Society of America in 2007. He is the founding Co-Chair of IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting on Optical MEMS (1996), the predecessor of IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Optical MEMS. He has served in the program committees of many technical conferences, including MEMS, OFC, CLEO, LEOS, MWP, IEDM, DRC, ISSCC; and as Guest Editor of two special issues of IEEE journals on Optical MEMS.

Dr. Wu¿s research interests include nanophotonics, optoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, optofluidics, and biophotonics.

Selected Publications

• A. D. Aguirre, P. R. Hertz, Y. Chen, J. G. Fujimoto, W. Piyawattanametha, L. Fan, and M. C. Wu, "Two-axis MEMS scanning catheter for ultrahigh resolution three-dimensional and en face imaging," Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 2445-2453, March 2007.
• A. T. Ohta, P. Chiou, H. L. Phan, S. W. Sherwood, J. M. Yang, A. N. K. Lau, H. Hsu, A. Jamshidi, and M. C. Wu, "Invited Paper: Optically controlled cell discrimination and trapping using optoelectronic tweezers," IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 235-243, March 2007.
• M. C. Wu, O. Solgaard, and J. E. Ford, "Invited Paper: Optical MEMS for lightwave communication," J. Lightwave Technology, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 4433-4454, Dec. 2006.
• J. Tsai and M. C. Wu, "A high port-count wavelength-selective switch using a large scan-angle, high fill-factor, two-axis MEMS scanner array," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, no. 13, pp. 1439-1441, July 2006.
• M. M. Lee and M. C. Wu, "Variable bandwidth of dynamic add-drop filters based on coupling-controlled microdisk resonators," Optics Letters, vol. 31, no. 16, pp. 2444-2446, July 2006.
• M. M. Lee and M. C. Wu, "Tunable coupling regimes of silicon microdisk resonators using MEMS actuators," Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 4703-4712, May 2006.
• M. M. Lee and M. C. Wu, "Thermal annealing in hydrogen for 3-D profile transformation on silicon-on-insulator and sidewall roughness reduction," IEEE/ASME J. Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 338-343, April 2006.
• M. M. Lee, D. Hah, E. K. Lau, H. Toshiyoshi, and M. C. Wu, "MEMS-actuated photonic crystal switches," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 358-, Jan. 2006.
• J. Tsai and M. C. Wu, "Gimbal-less MEMS two-axis optical scanner array with high fill-factor," IEEE/ASME J. Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1323-1328, Dec. 2005.
• P. Y. Chiou, A. T. Ohta, and M. C. Wu, "Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images," Nature, vol. 436, no. 7049, pp. 370-372, July 2005.