Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Archives

October 3, 2024

UC Library shares oral history of EECS Professor Emeritus William “Bill” Oldham

The oral history of William “Bill” Oldham, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is now online in the UC Berkeley Library’s digital collections. Oldham joined the faculty in 1964, where he was an expert on process technology, as well as the co-founder and…

January 11, 2024

Small solar sails could be the next ‘giant leap’ for interplanetary space exploration

EECS Professor Kris Pister and researchers seek to leverage advancements in micro-scale technology to make interplanetary space exploration more cost-effective and accessible — and to accelerate new discoveries about our inner solar system. They describe their work, the Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail (BLISS) project, in a study published in…

Research Area: Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

UC Library shares oral history of EECS Professor Emeritus William “Bill” Oldham

Small solar sails could be the next ‘giant leap’ for interplanetary space exploration