Presented as part of the MIT Media Lab Responsive Environments Group's Adventures in Sensing class.
How do accurate accelerometers run on a handful of microamperes? How can you design a chip to passively detect audio that has a spectral signature? In this set of talks, we’ll look at some ways in which MEMS sensors can be adapted to respond to and measure particular phenomena at minuscule power drain.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
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Speaker #1: Dr. Jon Bernstein is a leader in MEMS technology at Draper. Bernstein has been a main driver in many of their projects that began with the first MEMS gyro and MEMS hydrophones/microphones from three decades ago. Some of his recent work has involved adapting MEMS resonators into zero-power audio wakeup devices, which he’ll speak about in this session.
Speaker #2: Jack Memishian recently retired from Analog Devices, where he was an AD Fellow and prime mover there in MEMS accelerometers. Memishian is well known for his work in bringing MEMS devices into the micro/nano watt level—a breakthrough that has resulted in them becoming instrumental in all kinds of wearable and mobile systems. He has been a long-time collaborator with the Responsive Environments group on, for example, integrating MEMS inertial components into wearables for monitoring the extreme motion of baseball pitchers, and his popular honors include being declared as one of the 24 top innovators by Fortune Magazine.