Yu-Chong Tai
Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering
Research interests: medical devices, microsensors, MEMS, Bio-MEMS, labs-on-a-chip, microfluidics, drug delivery devices, micro implants, parylene as a biomaterial.
Overview
Professor Tai's research uses Semiconductor/MEMS/NEMS technologies for medical applications. He has built the Caltech MEMS Laboratory (http://mems.caltech.edu), an 8,000-square-foot facility completely dedicated to medical devices. This facility has a clean-room lab (~3,000 sq. ft), CAD lab, a measurement/test/metrology lab, and a biological lab. It supports researchers (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, visiting scholars and industrial members) to develop innovative MEMS/NEMS and medical devices. Examples of past devices include micromotors, microphones, neural chips, micro relays, micro power generators, micro valves, micro pumps, etc. Over the past 20 years, Prof. Tai has focused on medical devices. Project examples include HPLC-on-a-chip, complete blood count (CBC) labs-on-a-chip, wireless micro drug delivery, etc. Specifically, Tai's group has had a major program for micro implants for eye applications. Prof. Tai has collaborated with many medical doctors and biologist (such as from UCSF, USC, UCLA, COH, and industries) to develop integrated implants for cortical, retinal and spinal applications. Tai lab has developed devices such as spinal neural stimulators, ECG implants, retinal prosthetic devices, intraocular lenses, and implantable wireless pressure sensors. Tai's group welcomes students, postdocs and researchers who love technology and enjoy hands-on building devices.
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Ho, Chih-Ming, and Yu-Chong Tai. "Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) and fluid flows." Annual review of fluid mechanics 30, no. 1 (1998): 579-612.
Lin, Henry K., Siyang Zheng, Anthony J. Williams, Marija Balic, Susan Groshen, Howard I. Scher, Martin Fleisher et al. "Portable filter-based microdevice for detection and characterization of circulating tumor cells." Clinical Cancer Research 16, no. 20 (2010): 5011-5018.
Maher, MichaelP, Jerome Pine, John Wright, and Yu-Chong Tai. "The neurochip: a new multielectrode device for stimulating and recording from cultured neurons." Journal of neuroscience methods 87, no. 1 (1999): 45-56.
Tai, Yu-Chong, and Richard S. Muller. "IC-processed electrostatic synchronous micromotors." Sensors and Actuators 20, no. 1-2 (1989): 49-55.
Zheng, Siyang, Henry Lin, Jing-Quan Liu, Marija Balic, Ram Datar, Richard J. Cote, and Yu-Chong Tai. "Membrane microfilter device for selective capture, electrolysis and genomic analysis of human circulating tumor cells." Journal of chromatography A 1162, no. 2 (2007): 154-161.
Zheng, Siyang, Henry Lin, Jing-Quan Liu, Marija Balic, Ram Datar, Richard J. Cote, and Yu-Chong Tai. "Membrane microfilter device for selective capture, electrolysis and genomic analysis of human circulating tumor cells." Journal of chromatography A 1162, no. 2 (2007): 154-161.
Rodger, Damien C., Andy J. Fong, Wen Li, Hossein Ameri, Ashish K. Ahuja, Christian Gutierrez, Igor Lavrov et al. "Flexible parylene-based multielectrode array technology for high-density neural stimulation and recording." Sensors and Actuators B: chemical 132, no. 2 (2008): 449-460.
Pong, Kin-Choek, Chih-Ming Ho, Jianqiang Liu, and Yu-Chong Tai. "Non-linear pressure distribution in uniform microchannels." In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, vol. 13911, pp. 51-56. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994.
Ho, Chih-Ming, and Yu-Chong Tai. "MEMS and its applications for flow control." (1996): 437-447.
Chen, Po-Jui, Saloomeh Saati, Rohit Varma, Mark S. Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai. "Wireless intraocular pressure sensing using microfabricated minimally invasive flexible-coiled LC sensor implant." Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 19, no. 4 (2010): 721-734.
Li, Po-Ying, Jason Shih, Ronalee Lo, Saloomeh Saati, Rajat Agrawal, Mark S. Humayun, Yu-Chong Tai, and Ellis Meng. "An electrochemical intraocular drug delivery device." Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 143, no. 1 (2008): 41-48.