Doctoral student Dana Weinstein and Professor Sunil Bhave have developed a new form of electrical signal transformer based on MEMS technology that is 1/1000th the size of modern devices performing the same task. As companies continue to increase the power of laptops, PDAs and cell phones while shrinking their size, MEMS signal convertors could help fill the demand for smaller and more effecient components in mobile electronic devices.

Dr. Theodore Schwartz, a neurosurgeon at the Weill Cornell Medical College, is an expert in optical imaging techniques that can be deployed in the surgical suite. He has teamed up with Hongtao Ma, an expert in optical components, to develop novel implantable devices that combine electrical sensing and optical imaging components. The devices can be incorporated into deep brain stimulation devices to provide sensing for closed-loop control systems; they can also be implanted to monitor patients who have suffered stroke or traumatic brain injury or who are going to undergo ablative procedures to treat epilepsy.