The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering department at Washington State University is pleased to invite you to our upcoming seminar on Monday, Oct. 26, at 12:10 p.m. in Todd 311.
Dr. Arda Gozen is currently an assistant professor at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of Washington State University since the summer of 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering in 2012 from the Ozdoganlar
group at CMU where he also worked as a post-doctoral research associate. Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Gozen obtained his B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He was the recipient of outstanding performance in
teaching award from Mechanical Engineering Department of CMU in 2009. His research interests include micro- and nanoscale manufacturing, flexible-stretchable devices, mechatronics and instrumentation, dynamic systems and controls, precision engineering and piezoelectricity.
Topic:
Soft-matter Manufacturing: Towards high-precision flexible devices
Increasing demand in compact, hand-held or wearable devices has led to a significant need for new paradigms in device technologies such as flexible electronics. A recent report by National Research Council forecasts a total market share of $ 340 billion for flexible electronic devices by 2030. One of the main challenges for the flexible electronic device technologies is to find materials that can be functional under repeated mechanical deformation. “Soft-matter” that are highly deformable due to their simultaneous solid and liquid like behavior (colloids, gels, elastomers, polymer solutions etc.), have widely been used in composite configurations for flexible device technologies including soft-sensors, artificial skins and flexible batteries. Despite this increasing interest, the science of manufacturing with soft-matter, unlike conventional industrial materials such as metals and semiconductors, is far from established. In this talk, the efforts in Manufacturing Processes
and Machinery Laboratory (MPML) towards realizing high-precision processes and equipment for “soft-matter manufacturing” will be presented. Particular research on the manufacturing of (1) flexible energy storage devices through additive means, (2) highly conductive flexible electronic composite including low -melting point metal alloys and (3) micro-engineered optical devices using UV-curable polymers will be emphasized.
