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Ivan Puchades
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Dr. Puchades’ research interests are at the cutting edge of high frequency electronic applications as well as advanced materials and devices used in the fabrication of microchips and their applications. His research team includes graduate and undergraduate students, as well as postdocs and senior research personnel from RIT’s NanoPower Research Labs.
They collaborate with other universities such as Northeastern University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona to explore high frequency and sensing applications of carbon nanotubes and graphene. In addition, his research team works with local and regional companies in the research and development of MEMS devices and applications of thermal, electrostatic and piezoelectric MEMS resonators, piezoelectric energy harvesting, multi-sensor networks, and system integration on multiple substrates.
Dr. Puchades is an RIT alumnus (BS ’99, MS ’01, PhD ‘11). His Ph.D. focused on thermally actuated MEMS resonators to measure the viscosity of fluids. He joined the Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering faculty in 2016 after he completed a 2-year postdoctoral appointment providing innovating insight on the physical characteristics of doped electronic-type-separated single wall carbon nanotubes and developing novel devices. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering and graduate-level Microelectronic Engineering courses in MEMS Design, Fabrication and Test. Dr. Puchades has significant industry experience having worked as an RF device engineer and BiCMOS technology development engineer for Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor in Phoenix, Arizona from 2000 to 2005. He was responsible for CMOS and high-voltage technology integration at the 180-nm node. He co-op’d at Advanced Vision Technologies and National Semiconductor during his undergraduate studies at RIT.
Ivan Puchades
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering