Graham Wabiszewski

Phone Number: 215-898-4591
Email: grahamw@seas.upenn.edu
Office: 112 Towne

Education:

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, (expected 2012), U. Pennsylvania
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, (2006), U. Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:

NEMS/MEMS switches and logic, piezoelectric thin films, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM).

My current research focuses on evaluating the performance of nanoscale conducting junctions using the atomic force microscope. This work has application to the fabrication of nanoswitches that can behave as logic elements in a nanomechanical computer.

Refereed Publications:

Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride NanoElectroMechanical Actuators.
N. Sinha, G.E. Wabiszewski, R. Mahameed, V.V. Felmetsger, S.M. Tanner, R.W. Carpick, G. Piazza. App. Phys. Lett., (2009).

Characterization of Microscale Wear in a Polysilicon-Based MEMS Device using AFM and PEEM-NEXAFS Spectromicroscopy.
D.S. Grierson, A.R. Konicek, G.E. Wabiszewski, A.V. Sumant, M.P. de Boer, A.D. Corwin, R.W. Carpick. Tribol. Lett., (2009).

Posters & Conference Proceedings:

N. Sinha, G.E. Wabiszewski, R. Mahameed, V. Felmetsger, S. Tanner, R.W. Carpick and G. Piazza, “Ultra Thin AlN Piezoelectric Nano-Actuators”, The 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, June 21 - 25, 2009. (Link)

G.E. Wabiszewski, E.E. Flater, M.P. de Boer, M.A. Hamilton, W.G. Sawyer and R.W. Carpick, “Contact Modeling for MEMS Interfaces: Inadequacy of Classic Contact Algorithms and the Use of a New Elastic-Perfectly Plastic Approach,” The 2006 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, June 18 – 23, 2006. (Link)

Awards:

Faustin Prinz Scholarship, U. Wisconsin-Madison Dept. Mechanical Engineering, 2006.