Head of Group
Prof. David Elata
Phone: +972-4-829-3184
Office: Dan Kahn, 221
elata@technion.ac.il
Phone: +972-4-829-3184
Office: Dan Kahn, 221
elata@technion.ac.il
David Elata has a D.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 1993, and since 1996 he holds an academic position at the Technion. His research interests include modeling and design of MEMS actuators, and development of novel concepts for MEMS devices. He has been serving the MEMS community as an Editor of the IEEE-JMEMS, 2008-24, as a Senior Editor of IEEE-Sensors Letters, 2017-24, and he has been serving as a member of the TPCs of leading conferences in the field.
Alumni
| Name | Currently | When | Research titel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Ronen Ashkenazi | Founder, M.R.E., Israel. | Ph.D., 2001-2004 | Fatigue of steel wire ropes |
| Dr. Samy Abu-Salih | Ph.D., 2002-2006 | Modeling and analysis of electromechanical buckling with application to novel MEMS devices | |
| Dr. Rashed Mahameed | Currently with Apple, Israel. | Ph.D., 2003-2006 | Thermal effects in micro-systems, and application in novel micro-devices |
| Dr. Saar Golan | Ph.D., 2003-2007 | Differentiation of multi species biofluids by dielectrophoretic field flow fractionation | |
| Dr. Vitaly Leus | Ph.D., 2005-2009 | New efficient methods for modeling, design and actuation of electrostatic micro mechanical devices | |
| Dr. Arnon Hirshberg | Ph.D., 2005-2013 | Mechanical coupling in deformable structures in micro-systems | |
| Dr. Shai Shmulevich | Ph.D., 2012-2016 | Enhancing the functionality of MEMS actuators by tailoring nonlinear effects | |
| Dr. Inbar (Hotzen) Greenberg | Ph.D. 2013-2017 | Smart micro structures: directional features for enhancing the performance of micro-transducers | |
| Dr. Danny A. Kassie | Ph.D., 2016-2022 | Investigation of the response of resonators and parametric resonators | |
| Saar Golan | M.Sc., 2000-2002 | The relationship between the anatomy of the Canaliculi, the pressure at its ends and the blood flow through it | |
| Rashed Mahameed | M.Sc., 2001-2003 | A novel thermoelastic actuation scheme for micro resonators | |
| Dani Strasser | M.Sc., 1999-2003 | Binding layers for delaying damage in electronic boards | |
| Eyal Elka | M.Sc., 2003-2004 | The electromechanical response of multi-layered piezoelectric structures | |
| Matan Naftali | CEO and Founder, Maradin Ltd. | M.Sc., 2002-2004 | Towards a linear response of vertical comb-drive actuators |
| Arnon Hirshberg | M.Sc., 2002-2004 | Novel test devices for measuring mechanical properties of MEMS structures | |
| Ofir Barzely | M.Sc., 2003-2005 | Double sided comb drive with latching stators to minimize actuation voltages | |
| Vitaly Leus | M.Sc., 2003-2005 | Modeling the static and dynamic responses of electrostatic MEMS switches | |
| Shay Yulzary | M.Sc., 2005-2008 | Electromechanical instabilities in MEMS | |
| Michael Lerman | M.Sc., 2008-2010 | The quality of quality-factor in micro resonators | |
| Ben Rivlin | M.Sc. 2011-2012 | Non-linear springs for achieving prescribed electromechanical transduction | |
| Alon Benhaim | M.Sc. 2009-2011 | Self-alignment using electromagnetic induction for mass | |
| Shai Shmulevich | M.Sc., 2010-2012 | Measures of the response of electromechanical resonators | |
| Inbar Hotzen | M.Sc., 2011-2013 | MEMS resonators | |
| Osher Shapira | M.Sc. 2011-2013 | Implementation of electromagnetic induction in finite rectangular loops for self-alignment and levitation | |
| Tal Rubin | M.Sc. 2011-2013 | A simple constitutive model for dielectric charging based on Frenkel-Poole mechanism and a derivation of Maxwell stresses | |
| Daniel Ekeltchik | M.Sc., 2014-2015 | MEMS devices for measuring strength of microbeams | |
| Ido Zaltzman | M.Sc., 2012-2015 | Electromechanical Franklin oscillators | |
| Aharon Joffe | M.Sc. 2014-2016 | Parametric amplification in electrostatic resonators | |
| Danny A. Kassie | M.Sc., 2015-2016 | Thermally compensated folded-beam suspension | |
| Ohad Berman | GE Medical | M.Sc., 2008-2017 | Process Development for a Dielectric Resonator |
| Nadav Maccabi | M.Sc., 2016-2017 | Enhancing the functionality of unimorph piezoelectric actuators | |
| Eli Benvenisty | M.Sc. 2018-2019 | Vibration mode order in mechanical disk resonators | |
| Sahar Lustig | M.Sc. 2019-2020 | Piezoelectric Actuators and Vibrating Energy Harvesters | |
| Shir Benita | M.Sc. 2020-2021 | Single-crystalline piezoelectric linear actuators | |
| Sivan Levi | M.Sc. 2020-2021 | Wineglass mode resonators with optimized geometry for mode matching and mode ordering | |
| Julian Levinton | M.Sc. 2021-2022 | Single crystalline piezoelectric actuators | |
| Eyal Ben-Yosef | M.Sc. 2019-2022 | Piezoelectric actuators | |
| David Rosenstock | M.Sc. 2020-2022 | The nonlinear dynamics of vibrating rings | |
| Lior Musnikov | M.Sc. 2019-2022 | The nonlinear dynamics of vibrating beams | |
| Assaf Menashe | M.Sc. 2020-2022 | Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes operated by auto-resonance driving | |
| Itamar Shoham | M.Sc. 2020-2022 | Surface waves in single-crystalline piezoelectric actuators | |
| Elia Salman | M.Sc. 2023-2024 | Vibration of cantilever beams, with application to piezoelectric vibrating energy harvester (PVEH) devices | |
| Malachi Michelin | M.Sc. 2023-2024 | Auto resonance driving of frequency modulated Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes | |
| Gil Cahana | M.Sc. 2019-2025 | A continuously tunable multistable electrostatic transducer |