Smart MicroDevice
Group website!
Pls.
click here to find some facilities of Smart Microdevice group.
Pls. Click here to find some Highlights of
Group’s Achievement!
SMG Group’s Research
Grants in recent two years
1.
May
2010: Dr. Fu received Larger Grant from Carnegie Trust Funding for project of “Demonstration of
the feasibility of integrating AlN film with a range of advanced digital
microfluidic lab-on-chip technologies”.
2.
May
2010: Congratulation to Stuart Brodie, who received 2010 RSE/J M Lessells
Scholarship for collaboration with Prof. A. Wixforth from University
of Ausburg, Germany, who is a world leader in surface acoustic wave
microfluidics.
3.
April
2010: Dr. Fu received “Major
Awards” from “The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Exchanges with
China and India Scheme” to focus his work on
“Nanocomposite Shape memory polymer for microsurgery applications”.
Collaborator is Prof. X.T.Zu from University of Electronic Science and
Technology of China.
4.
March
2010: Dr. Fu received “Research
Grant” from Royal Society to focus his work on “Thin Films based
Lab-on-chip”
5.
Feb
2010: Dr. Fu received “International Exchange Award” from Royal Society of
Edinburgh to collaborate with researchers from Taiwan (Prof. Cherng in Mingchi
University of Technology and Prof. Shu from National Taiwan University)
6.
Dec
2009: A 1.5 million pounds research boost! Dr. Fu is a Co-Investigator
in an EPSRC/IeMRC Research Funding. More can be found from this website: http://imnssm.eng.ed.ac.uk/
7.
Nov
2009: Dr. Fu was granted with “Scotland-China Higher Education Partnership Project” (with
Prof. X.D. He from Harbin Institute of Technology, China).
8.
Sept
2009: Dr. Rehan Ahmed and Dr. Fu collaborate with
AWE on an industry project on “Microfluidic Simulation”.
9.
Mar
2009: Dr. Fu was granted with Carnegie Trust Awards,
Scotland
10. Mar 2008: International Exchange Award from Royal Society of Edinburgh to collaborate with Prof. X Li in
Shanghai, China.
Dr.
Yongqing Fu’s research areas include:
1.
Micro-electromechanical systems
About 10 year experience in
MEMS and cleanroom, Dr. Fu has fabricated a lot of different MEMS structures
and devices. More can be found here.
2.
Microfluidic
lab on chip devices using ZnO, AlN and LiNbO3
Dr.
Fu’s recent work is focusing on microfluidics and biosensing. More can be found
here.
3.
Shape
memory alloy thin films and MEMS applications
Recent
review for TiNi film and MEMS applications
4.
Shape
memory Polymer and nanocomposites for biological applications
(see
the edge of 5 pence for comparison)
5.
Piezoelectric materials, thin
films and devices (ZnO, AlN, PZT, etc)
6.
Nanoconposite
thin films with superior mechanical properties
7.
Nanotechnology and
nanodevices
Si nanopillar
8.
Amorphous silicon and
MEMS applications
9.
Diamond and DLC for MEMS
applications
