e-mail: pjchen at mems dot caltech dot edu
phone: (626) 395-2254
fax: (626) 584-9104

office:  Moore 47

TAIWAN FLASH

 
Education

• Ph.D., 2004-present, EE, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
• M.S., 2003-2004, EE, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
• B.S., 1998-2002, ME, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TAIWAN

Research Projects

• Implantable Unpowered Biomedical MEMS Devices (2004-present)

     - Intraocular Pressure Sensors
     - Intraocular Pressure Drainage Devices

• Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics (2004-present)

     - Nearly-ideal polymeric floating-disk check valves

     - Monolithic High-Performance Polymer Embedded Channels/Columns

     - Monolithic Submicron-Aperture Embedded Polymer Nozzles

• PowerMEMS (2004)

     - Liquid-Rotor Electret Power Generator Systems

Research Interests

• Biomedical MEMS Devices
• Lab-on-a-Chip (Micro-Total-Analysis Systems)
• Microfludics/Nanofluidics
• Microscale Sensors/Actuators/Structures
• Micro/Nanofabrications and Advanced Micromachining Technologies

Publication

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Ellis Meng, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, Surface-Micromachined Parylene Dual Valves for On-Chip Unpowered Microflow Regulation, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 223-231, 2007.

• Po-Jui Chen, Chi-Yuan Shih, and Yu-Chong Tai, Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Monolithic Embedded Parylene Microchannels in Silicon Substrate, Lab on a Chip, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 803-810, 2006.

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, Unpowered Spiral-Tube Parylene Pressure Sensor for Intraocular Pressure Sensing, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 127, no. 2, pp. 276-282, 2006.

    Conference Proceeding Papers

• Po-Jui Chen and Yu-Chong Tai, A Micromechanical Parylene Spiral-Tube Sensor and its Applications of Unpowered Environmental Pressure/Temperature Sensing, to be presented in Technical Digest, IEEE Sensors'07 Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct. 28-31, 2007.

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Saloomeh Saati, Juan Carlos Altamirano, Chun-Hui Lin, Rajat Agrawal, Rohit Varma, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, Implementation of Microfabricated Suture-Less Flexible Parylene Tissue Anchors on Minimally Invasive Biomedical Implants, to be presented in Technical Digest, MicroTAS'07 Conference, Paris, France, Oct. 7-11, 2007.

• Po-Jui Chen and Yu-Chong Tai, Floating-Disk Parylene Micro Check Valve, Technical Digest, MEMS'07 Conference, Kobe, Japan, Jan. 21-25, 2007.

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Ellis Meng, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, In Vivo Characterization of Implantable Unpowered Parylene MEMS Intraocular Pressure Sensors, Technical Digest, MicroTAS'06 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 5-9, 2006. (Student Poster Award)

• Po-Jui Chen and Yu-Chong Tai, Plasma-Based Microfabrication of Submicron-Aperture Parylene Nozzles, Technical Digest, MicroTAS'06 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 5-9, 2006.

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Ellis Meng, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, Surface-Micromachined In-Channel Parylene Dual Valves for Unpowered Microflow Regulation, Technical Digest, HiltonHead'06 Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, Jun. 4-8, 2006.

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Ellis Meng, Mark S. Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, Implantable Unpowered Parylene MEMS Intraocular Pressure Sensor, Technical Digest, IEEE-EMBS MMB’06 Conference, Okinawa, Japan, May 9-12, 2006.

• Po-Jui Chen and Yu-Chong Tai, Monolithic High-Aspect-Ratio Embedded Parylene Channel Technology: Fabrication, Integration, and Applications, IEEE NEMS'06 Conference, Zhuhai, CHINA, Jan. 18-21, 2006. (paper published in IEEE Review on Advances of Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems, vol. 1, pp. 587-588, 2006; full paper available in IEEE Xplore database)

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, and Yu-Chong Tai, Fully-Dry Fabrication of Monolithic High-Aspect-Ratio Embedded Parylene Microchannels, Technical Digest, MicroTAS'05 Conference, Boston, MA, USA, Oct. 9-13, 2005.

• Ellis Meng, Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Yu-Chong Tai, and Mark Humayun, Implantable Parylene MEMS for Glaucoma Therapy, Technical Digest, IEEE-EMBS MMB'05 Conference, Oahu, HI, USA, May 12-15, 2005.

• Po-Jui Chen, Damien Rodger, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai, Spiral-Tube Parylene Intraocular Pressure Sensor, Technical Digest, MEMS'05 Conference, Miami, FL, USA, Jan. 30 - Feb. 3, 2005.

• Adam Huang, Po-Jui Chen, Justin Boland, Daniel Alberer, Tak-Sing Wong, H.Q. Yang, Yu-Chong Tai, and Chih-Ming Ho, Liquid-Rotor Electret Power Generator Energized by a MEMS-Based Pulsed Combustor, Technical Digest, PowerMEMS'04 Conference, Kyoto, JAPAN, Nov. 28-30, 2004.

• Po-Jui Chen, Wei-Liang Hsu, Kuang-Yi Chang, Kai-Yuan Hou, Chih-Kung Lee, Kuang-Chong Wu, Full Body Strain States Metrology by Integrating ESPI and Boundary Computation Methods, Technical Digest, International Symposium on Experimental Mechanics (ISEM'2002), Taipei, TAIWAN, Dec. 28-30, 2002.

    Patents

• Implantable Mechanical Pressure Sensor and Method of Manufacturing the Same, Non-Provisional Application, in progress (#20050268722)

• Micromachined Tissue Anchors for Securing Implants without Sutures, Non-Provisional Application, in progress (#20060247664)

• Integrated Chromatography Devices and Systems for Monitoring Analytes in Real Time and Methods for Manufacturing the Same, Non-Provisional Application, in progress (#20070000838)

• Implantable Intraocular Pressure Drain, Non-Provisional Application, in progress

• Implantable Check-Valved Tube for Passive Intraocular Pressure Regulation and Method for Manufacturing the Same, Provisional Application

• Implantable MEMS Ocular Drug Delivery System, Provisional Application

• Floating-Disk Polymeric Micro Check Valves for Microfluidics and Biomedical Applications, Provisional Application

• Microfabricated Implantable Wireless Pressure Sensor for Biomedical Pressure Sensing and Method of Manufacturing the Same, Provisional Application

Academic Activities

• Management Committee Member, Micromachining Laboratory, Caltech, 2007-present

• Graduate Research Assistant, Micromachining Laboratory, Caltech, 2003-present

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, EE185: MEMS Technology and Devices, Caltech, Fall 2006

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, EE187: VLSI and ULSI Technology, Caltech, Fall 2005

• Journal Reviewer, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2007-present

• Journal Reviewer, Sensors and Transducers, 2006-present

• Journal Reviewer, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2005-present

• Journal Reviewer, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2004-present

Honors and Awards

• Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society Scholarship, West America Chapter, 2007

• CESASC Scholarship, USA, 2007

• Student Poster Award in MicroTAS Conference, CHEMINAS, Japan, 2006

• Sorenson Fellowship, Caltech, USA, 2003-2004

• Presidential Award, NTU, Taiwan, (5 times) 1998-2002

• Outstanding College Youth Award, NTU, Taiwan, 2002

• Delta Electronic Inc. Scholarship, Taiwan, 2001

• First Commercial Bank Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Taiwan, 2000

Memberships

• Full Member, Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society, 2006-present

• Honorary Member, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, Taiwan, 2003

• Student Member, The Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO), 2005-present

• Student Member, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), MEMS division, 2004-present

• Student Member, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), EDS and EMBS societies, 2003-present

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