Cem presents micromirror driver ASIC paper at ISSCC 2021

Cem Yalcin presented a paper (19.3) at the 2021 International Solid-State Circuits Conference on “A MEMS-Based Dynamic Light Focusing System for Single-Cell Precision in Optogenetics”. The presentation was delivered as part of the session on “Optical Systems for Emerging Applications”, with the presentation made available on Feb 5 and the live Q&A held on Feb 17, 9:31-9:31 am PST.

Abstract: The settling time of axial(Z) focusing elements has become a critical bottleneck in scan-based optogenetics systems. Alternative high-speed technologies either operate in resonant mode, have poor efficiency or come with impractical drive requirements. We present a system composed of a MEMS device and an ASIC that has >180x the speed of state-of-the-art tunable lenses and 10x higher efficiency for 10x lower power consumption than other chip-scale high-speed alternatives.