Name: Manu Agarwal

Contact Information:

Mailing Address - 440 Escondido Mall, Bldg 530 Room 224, Stanford (CA), 94305-3030, USA
e-mail -  amanu@stanford.edu
Phone - +1-650-723-0277
Fax - +1-650-723-7657
Webpage - http://micromachine.stanford.edu/~amanu/ 


EDUCATION -

 - Ph. D., EE, Stanford Univ. (Expected Sept. 2007), Current GPA
 - M. S., EE, Stanford Univ. (Conferred June. 2005), Final GPA
 - B.Tech., EE, Indian Institute of Technology (Conferred May 2003)

EXPERIENCE - 

1) Agilent Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA) –  Intern (June 2004 – Sept. 2004)
 - Characterization of Dipole Surface Drive micro actuator.
 - Signal conditioning circuit design for integrated position sensor.

2) Stanford Micro Structures & Sensors Lab – Grad. Stud. Researcher (April 2004 – present)
 - Design of High Frequency Microresonators and Resonant Sensors.
 - Nonlinear Modeling & Characterization of MEMS resonators.
 - Oscillator Phase noise modeling and measurement.

3) General Electric Labs (EPFL, Switzerland) – Intern (May 2002 – July. 2002)
- Modeling & Optimization of a planar spiral integrated - RF inductor (L).

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS -

1. M. Agarwal, K. K. Park, S. A. Chandorkar, R. N. Candler, B. Kim, M. A. Hopcroft, R. Melamud, T. W. Kenny, B. Murmann, “Acceleration sensitivity in beam-type electrostatic micoresonators,”  American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 4103-05, 2007.

2. M. Agarwal, D. Dutton, J. A. Theil, Q. Bai, E. Par and S. Hoen, “Characterization of a Dipole Surface Drive Actuator with Large Travel and Force,” IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,  vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1726-1734, 2006.

3. M. Agarwal, S. A. Chandorkar, R. N. Candler, B. Kim, M. A. Hopcroft, R. Melamud, C. M. Jha, T. W. Kenny, B. Murmann, “Optimal Drive Condition for Nonlinearity Reduction in Electrostatic MEMS resonators,” American Institute of Physics Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, no. 21, pp. 4105-07, 2006.

4. A. Mahajan, M. Agarwal and A. K. Chaturvedi, "A novel method for down-conversion of multiple bandpass signals," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, vol.5, no.2, pp. 427- 434, February 2006.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS -

1. M. Agarwal, H. Mehta, R. N. Candler, S. A. Chandorkar, M. A. Hopcroft, R. Melamud, G. Bahl, T. W. Kenny, B. Murmann, “Impact of Miniaturization on the Current Handling of Electrostatic MEMS Resonators,” presented at 20th IEEE MEMS Conf., Kobe (Japan), Jan. 2007.

2. M. Agarwal, K. K. Park, R. N. Candler, B. Kim, M. A. Hopcroft, S. A. Chandorkar, C. M. Jha, R. Melamud, T. W. Kenny and B. Murmann, “Nonlinear Characterization of Electrostatic MEMS resonators,” presented at IEEE Frequency Control Symposium, Miami, FL, 2006. 

3. M. Agarwal, K. K. Park, B. Kim, M. A. Hopcroft, S. Chandorkar, R. N. Candler, C. M. Jha, R. Melamud, B. Murrman and T. W. Kenny, “Amplitude Noise induced Phase Noise in Electrostatic MEMS Resonators,” presented at Hilton Head Workshop, Hilton Head, SC, 2006.

4. M. Agarwal, K. K. Park, M. Hopcroft, S. Chandorkar, R. N. Candler, B. Kim, R. Melamud, G. Yama, B. Murmann and T. W. Kenny, "Effects of Mechanical Vibrations and Bias Voltage Noise on Phase Noise of MEMS Resonator Based Oscillators," presented at 19th IEEE MEMS Conf., Istanbul, Turkey, 2006.

5. M. Hopcroft, M. Agarwal, K. K. Park, B. Kim, C. M. Jha, R. N. Candler, G. Yama, B. Murmann and T. W. Kenny, "Temperature Compensation of a MEMS Resonator Using Quality Factor as a Thermometer," presented at 19th IEEE MEMS Conf., Istanbul, Turkey, 2006.

6. M. Agarwal, K. K. Park, R. N. Candler, M. Hopcroft, C. M. Jha, R. Melamud, B. Kim, B. Murmann and T. W. Kenny, "Non-Linearity Cancellation in MEMS Resonators for Improved Power-Handling," presented at IEEE Int. Electron Devices Meeting, Washington D.C., 2005.

INVITED TALKS -

1. M. Agarwal and T. W. Kenny, “Nonlinearity limited power handling in MEMS resonator based oscillators,” Presented at the Nanotimer Workshop on MEMS resonators, Lausanne (Switzerland), February 2006.

2. M. Agarwal, B. Murmann and T. W. Kenny, “MEMS Resonator based Oscillators,” Presented at Research and Technology Center, Robert Bosch Corporation, Palo Alto (California), March 2006.

INVENTIONS - 

 - Co-invented and co-authored the application for patent titled “Composite mechanical transducer and approaches therefor” (pending at the US patent office).