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Fernando Alfaro
Postdoctoral Fellow, ICES

Email address: fer@cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
ICES
1201 Hamburg Hall
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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• Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory - We are developing miniature sensor and actuator systems using integrated-circuit fabrication processes.

• Ultra-High-Density Data Cache for Low-Power Communications - Demonstrating technology for a 10 GB/cm2 rewritable data storage system using MEMS-based actuators and magnetic recording.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• A Multi Axial BioImplantable MEMS Array Bone Stress Sensor
  F. Alfaro
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-31, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [32874 KB] copyrighted

• BioImplantable Bone Stress Sensor
  F. Alfaro, L. Weiss, P. Campbell, M.C. Miller, C. Heyward, J.S. Doctor, and G. Fedder
  Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 27th Annual Conference (EMBS '05), September, 2005.

• "Chip-Size" Antennas for Implantable Sensors and Smart Dust
  P. Basset, F. Alfaro, D. Novosel, A. de la Plaza, D. Stancil, and G. Fedder
  The 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS '05), June, 2005, pp. 457 - 460.

• Actuation for Probe-Based Mass Data Storage
  F. Alfaro and G. Fedder
  Technical Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM '02), April, 2002, pp. 202 - 205.

• MEMS memory elements
  R. Carley, R.T. El-Sayed, D. Guillou, F. Alfaro, G. Fedder, S. Schlosser, D. Nagle, G. Ganger, and J. Bain
  Proceedings of the 2001 Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS '01), November, 2001, pp. 1 - 5.