Ivan Puchades
Associate Professor
Ivan Puchades
Associate Professor
Education
BS, MS, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology
Bio
Dr. Puchades completed his Ph.D. on thermally actuated MEMS resonators to measure the viscosity of fluids in 2011. In 2016 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 has taught graduate-level Microelectronic Engineering courses in MEMS Design, Fabrication and Test.
His current research interests include collaborations to explore high frequency and sensing applications of new materials such as carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials (graphene, 2D metal chalcogenides, phosphorenes, borophene, nanowires, 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) heterostructures, etc.). He is also interested in expanding research and development of MEMS devices and applications of thermal, electrostatic and piezoelectric MEMS resonators, piezoelectric energy harvesting, multi-sensor networks, and system integration.
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 0.18-µm node. While at Freescale he organized a Device Physics Seminar for process engineers, obtained his Six-Sigma green belt accreditation and lead the resolution of several high-impact device engineering issues. He coop’d at Advanced Vision Technologies and National Semiconductor during his undergraduate studies.
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Selected Recent Publications
Experimental design for CO2 laser cutting of sub-millimeter features in very large-area carbon nanotube sheets, AR Bucossi, JE Rossi, BJ Landi, I Puchades
Optics & Laser Technology 134, 106591 2021
Platinum nanometal interconnection of copper–carbon nanotube hybrid electrical conductors, AP Leggiero, SD Driess, ED Loughran, DJ McIntyre, RK Hailstone, ...
Carbon 168, 290-301 1 2020
Antenna Arrays as Millimeter-Wave Wireless Interconnects in Multichip Systems
RS Narde, J Venkataraman, A Ganguly, I Puchades, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 19 (11), 1973-1977 2020
Integrated Titanium-Carbon Nanotube Conductors via Joule-Heating Driven Chemical Vapor Deposition, DJ McIntyre, AP Leggiero, RK Hailstone, I Puchades, CD Cress, BJ Landi, ECS Transactions 97 (7), 321 2020
Interfacing Copper and Carbon Nanotubes with Titanium for Enhanced Electrical Performance, DJ McIntyre, R Hirschman, I Puchades, BJ Landi, ECS Meeting Abstracts, 678 2020
Enhanced copper–carbon nanotube hybrid conductors with titanium adhesion layer
DJ McIntyre, RK Hirschman, I Puchades, BJ Landi, Journal of Materials Science 55 (15), 6610-6622 4 2020
Ivan Puchades, Jamie E. Rossi, Cory D. Cress, Eric Naglich, and Brian J. Landi. “Carbon nanotube thin-film antennas,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8 (32), pp 20986–20992
Jamie E. Rossi, Cory D. Cress, Sheila M. Goodman, Nathanael D. Cox, Ivan Puchades, Andrew R. Bucossi, Andrew Merrill, and Brian J. Landi. 'Enhanced Electrical Transport in Carbon Nanotube Thin Films through Defect Modulation.' The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, no. 28 (2015): 15488-15495.
Ivan Puchades, Colleen C. Lawlor, Christopher M. Schauerman, Andrew R. Bucossi, Jamie E. Rossi, Nathanael D. Cox, Brian J. Landi, “Mechanism of chemical doping in electronic-type-separated single wall carbon nanotubes towards high