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 Prof. Muthukumaran Packirisamy Department of Mechanical Engineering, CONCORDIA University, Canada |
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| Title: MICROPHOTONICS AND NANO INTEGRATED LAB ON CHIPS: APPLICATIONS INCLUDING OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND BIO DIAGNOSIS | |
| Abstract: The necessity for increased level of integration with micro devices have been growing for enhancing performance, functionalities, and packaging. As the fully integrated devices favour portability and disposability they would be useful for optical communication, micro spectrometry, in-situ biomedical diagnosis and Point-of-Care testing. This work will present the integration of some novel technologies such as the microphotonics, microfluidics, nano elements with microsystems for various applications including optical communication and bio sensing. The paper would cover many examples and integration techniques such as hybrid and monolithic. In this work, a microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip device on silicon platform hybrid and monolithically integrated with planar optical waveguides, Echelle grating based Spectrometer-on-Chip and microfluidics will be presented along with results. The paper will also cover many examples on micro-nano integration along with case studies in optical communication, physical sensing, chemical sensing and bio diagnosis | |
| Biography: Dr. M. Packirisamy is a Professor and Concordia Research Chair at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Concordia University. He is also an academician of Canada and having the honor of being the member of two societies out of three societies of Canadian Council of Academies (CCA), namely, Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). In addition, he is also a Fellow of the prestigious US National Academy of Inventors and Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). As an expert in the areas of Micro-Nano-Bio Integration, Optical Bio Microsystems, InSitu and Ex-situ Nano Integration of Lab On Chip and microsensors, he develops and studies nano integrated microsystems for various applications. As the Director of Micro-Nano-Bio Integration Center and Optical Bio Microsystems Lab, he developed this lab focusing on Lab on Chip, Bio-Microsystems and micro-nano integration. He is the recipient of Member Royal Society of Canada College, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of Institution of Engineers India, Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and I.W.Smith award from Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University Research Fellow, Petro Canada Young Innovator Award and ENCS Young Research Achievement Award. As an author of around 420 articles published in journals and conference proceedings, 36 invited talks, he has 24 inventions in the areas of micro and nano systems. He has supervised more than 12 Research Associates, 31 PhDs, 51 Masters nd 69 UG students. He was successful in obtaining grants worth of more than $14 Million. He has also recently published a textbook, BioMEMS: Engineering and Science Perspectives (CRC Press, 2011), and 4 book chapters. His Recent invention on energy harvesting from photosynthesis of blue green algae had more than 160 citations around the world and was covered by most of the countries and media throughout the world including Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), NDTV, Montreal Gazette, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, International Business Times, Thomson Reuters, and many more. | |
