Dr. Tao WANG

Former Team Leader of Piezoelectric MEMS Devices

 

Tao Wang received his B.Eng. degree from the School of Microelectronics and Solid-state Electronics at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2010 and MSc degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore in 2011. His PhD degree is conferred in Electrical & Computer Eng. Dept., NUS in May 2016. He is currently an assistant professor at Unviersity of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests are focused on piezoelectric MEMS based acoustic devices.

Contact Email: myawaw@gmail.com

 

 

Research Projects Involved in NUS and IME

1.Development of Wearable Micro Blood Flow Sensors for Livestock Breeding (Project No.: SERC1220103064), Project Leader;

2.Aerospace Program Cycle-6 (Project No.: IME/12-330065), Project Member (2/5);

3. Novel Sensors and Acoustic Transducer for the Down-hole Electronic System (Project No.: SERC1021650084), Project Member (2/5);

 

Awards:

The winning entry is entitled "Broadband Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) Using Mode-Merged Design "

Best paper award finalist (Top 5 papers) for 10th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS 2015)

The winning entry is entitled "Broadband Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) Using Mode-Merged Design "

 

Journals/Letters:

    1. Tao Wang, Takeshi Kobayashi and Chengkuo Lee, Highly Sensitive Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) Operated in Air, Micro and Nano Lett., to be published.

    2. Qiongfeng Shi, Tao Wang, Takeshi Kobayashi and Chengkuo Lee, Investigation of Geometric Design in Piezoelectric Microelectromechanical Systems Diaphragms for Ultrasonic Energy Harvesting, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol.108, No. 19, pp.193902, 2016. [PDF] [DOI]

    3. Qiongfeng Shi, Tao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, MEMS Based Broadband Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Energy Harvester (PUEH) for Enabling Self-Powered Implantable Biomedical Devices, Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher), vol. 6, pp. 24946, 2016.[PDF] [DOI]

    4. Tao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, Zero-Bending Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) with Enhanced Transmitting Performance, IEEE J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol. 24, no.6, pp. 2083-2091, 2015.[PDF] [DOI]

    5. Tao Wang, Xiaojing Mu, Andrew Benson Randles, Yuandong Gu, and Chengkuo Lee, Diaphragm shape effect on the sensitivity of surface acoustic wave based pressure sensor for harsh environment, App. Phycs. Lett., vol.107, issue 12, pp. 123501. [PDF] [DOI]

    6. Tao Wang, Renshi Sawada, and Chengkuo Lee, A Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) Using Piston-like Membrane Motion, IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol.36, issue 9,pp. 957-959. [PDF] [DOI]

    7. Tao Wang, Takeshi Kobayashi and Chengkuo Lee, Micromachined piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer with ultra-wide frequency bandwidth, App. Phys. Lett., vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 013501, 2015.[PDF] [DOI]

    8. Songsong Zhang, Tao Wang, Liang Lou, Wei Mong Tsang, Renshi Sawada, Dim-Lee Kwong, and Chengkuo Lee, Annularly Grooved Diaphragm Pressure Sensor with Embedded Silicon Nanowires for Low Pressure Application, IEEE/ASME J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol.23, No.6, pp. 1396-1407, 2014. [PDF] [DOI]

    9. Tao Wang, Xiaojing Mu, Piotr Kropelnicki, Andrew Benson Randles and Chengkuo Lee, Viscosity and density decoupling method by using higher order Lamb wave sensor, J. Micromech. Microeng, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 075002, 2014. [PDF] [DOI]

    10. Tao Wang, Liang Lou, and Chengkuo Lee, A junctionless gate-all-around silicon nanowire FET of high linearity and its potential applications, IEEE Electron Device Lett.,vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 478-480, 2013. [PDF] [DOI]

 

Conferences:

    257.Tao Wang, Takeshi Kobayashi, Bin Yang, Hao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, Highly Sensitive Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) Operated in Air, The 11th IEEE Annual International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), Japan, 17-20 April, 2016.

    256.Hao Wang, Tao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, Self-powered liquid volume sensor aiming at lab-on-chip applications, The 11th IEEE Annual International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), Japan, 17-20 April, 2016.

    251.Tao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, Electrically Switchable Multi-Frequency Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (Pmut) , The 29th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2016) , China, Jan 24 ~ 28, 2016.

    250.Qiongfeng Shi, Tao Wang, Takeshi Kobayashi and Chengkuo Lee, MEMS Based Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Energy Harvester For Self-Powered Under-Water Applications, The 29th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2016) , China, Jan 24 ~ 28, 2016.

    29. Tao Wang, Renshi Sawada , Bin Yang and Chengkuo Lee, Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers for biomedical applications, Intern. Conf. on BioElectronics, BioSensor, BioMedical Devices, BioMEMS/NEMS and Applications 2015 (Bio4Apps 2015), I-3, Fukuoka, Japan, Dec. 9-11, 2015.

    240. Tao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Of Flat Membrane With Boosted Transmitting Performance, The 18th Intern. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2015), W3E.002, pp.666-669, Anchorage, Alaska, June 21-25, 2015.

    231.Tao Wang, Takeshi Kobayashi and Chengkuo Lee, Broadband Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) Using Mode-Merged Design , The 10th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS 2015), Xi'an, China, Apr. 7-11, 2015.

    230.Prakash Pitchappa, Lokesh Dhakar, Chong Pei Ho, You Qian, Tao Wang and Chengkuo Lee, Subwavelength MEMS cantilever array for dynamic manipulation of terahertz waves , The 10th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS 2015), Xi'an, China, Apr. 7-11, 2015.

    222. Songsong Zhang, Tao Wang, Renshi Sawada and Chengkuo Lee, NEMS pressure sensor aiming at low pressure sensing for healthcare applications, Intern. Union of Mat. Research Soc. - Intern. Conf. in Asia. (IUMRS-ICA 2014), Fukuoka, Japan, Aug. 24 28, 2014.

    211. Tao Wang, Xiaojing Mu, Piotr Kropelnicki, Andrew Randles and Chengkuo Lee, A MEMS Sensor for Decoupled Determination of Liquid viscosity and density, The 6th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems (ISMM 2014), pp. 133-134, Singapore, Jul. 29 Aug. 1, 2014.

    200. Tao Wang, Xiaojing Mu, Piotr Kropelnicki, Andrew Benson Randles Chengkuo Lee, A CMOS-compatible lamb wave resonator for liquid properties sensing, 2014 IEEE Intern. Conf. on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2014), Singapore, Apr. 21 24, 2014.

    199. Songsong Zhang, Tao Wang, Liang Lou, Wei-Mong Tsang, Dim-Lee Kwong and Chengkuo Lee, Silicon nanowires embedded pressure sensor with annularly grooved diaphragm for sensitivity improvement, 2014 IEEE Intern. Conf. on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2014), Singapore, Apr. 21 24, 2014.

    197. Songsong Zhang, Liang Lou, Tao Wang, Wei Mong Tsang, Dim-Lee Kwong and Chengkuo Lee, Characterizations of Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs) Embedded NEMS Sensors and for Potential Bio-medical Applications, IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio 2013), MPoster-20, Singapore, Dec. 09-11, 2013.