email: yong@mems.caltech.edu

Research Projects

• Flexible Skin and its Application to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
• High Pressure Sensor for Oil Well Application
• Flow meter based on a Multi-sensor Chip
• Total Integrated Flexible Skin

Education

• 1997 B.S. Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, P.R.C
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Jun 2002

Honors and Awards

• CESASC Scholarship (2000)

Recent Publications

Yong Xu, Chen-Wei Chiu, Fukang Jiang, Qiao Lin and Yu-Chong Tai, Mass Flowmeter Using a Multi-Sensor Chip , Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS '00), Miyazaki, Japan, Jan. 23-27 (2000).

Fukang Jiang, Yong Xu, T. Weng, Z. Han, Y.C. Tai , A. Huang, C. M. Ho , and S. Newbern, Flexible Shear Stress Sensor Skin and Its Application to Aerodynamics , Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS '00), Miyazaki, Japan, Jan. 23-27 (2000).

Yong Xu, Fukang Jiang, Yu-Chong Tai , Eric Donzier, William Loomis, and Arthur Liberman, A Surface Micromachined Nitride-Diaphragm High-Pressure Sensor for Oil Well Application , ASME 2000, Orlanddo, Florida, Nov. 5-10 (2000).