Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Room: 307
TOPIC AREA:  NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES


   SESSION 53
  Nano- and Bio-Chip Design
  Chair: Ion Mandoiu - Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  Organizers: Igor Markov, Niraj Jha

  This session presents chip design techniques for nano- and bio-technologies. The first paper leverages thermodynamics to select appropriate base pairs in DNA-driven self-assembly. The next two papers offer new design techniques for microfluidic biochips. The final paper in this session describes a 3D carbon nanotube capacitor.

  53.1   Design Automation for DNA Self-Assembled Nanostructures
  Speaker(s): Constantin Pistol - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
  Author(s): Constantin Pistol - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Alvin Lebeck - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Chris L. Dwyer - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
  53.2  Automated Design of Pin-Constrained Digital Microfluidic Arrays for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
  Speaker(s): Fei Su - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
  Author(s): William L. Hwang - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Fei Su - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Krishnendu Chakrabarty - Duke Univ., Durham, NC
  53.3s  Placement of Digital Microfluidic Biochips Using the T-tree Formulation
  Speaker(s): Ping-Hung Yuh - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  Author(s): Ping-Hung Yuh - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Chia-Lin Yang - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Yao-Wen Chang - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  53.4s  A High Density, Carbon Nanotube Capacitor for Decoupling Applications
  Speaker(s): Mark M. Budnik - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
  Author(s): Mark M. Budnik - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Arijit Raychowdhury - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Aditya Bansal - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Kaushik Roy - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN