Yu-Chong
Tai
Professor
of Electrical Engineering
B.S., National Taiwan University, 1981
M.S., University of California, 1986
Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1989
1200
East California Boulevard, MS 136-93
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
(626) 395-8317 (office)
(626) 584-9104 (fax)
yctai@touch.caltech.edu
Research
Yu-Chong
Tai's research interests include MEMS technology, microsensors,
microactuators, microstructure, MEMS systems, and MEMS science.
Successfully developed MEMS devices in his lab include pressure
sensors, shear-stress sensors, hot-wire anemometers, magnetic
actuators, microphones, microvalves, micromotors, and so on. System-level
MEMS research projects include integrated M3 (microelectronics
+ microsensors + microactuators) drag-reduction smart surface,
flexible smart skin for the control unmanned aerial vehicles,
and micro fluid delivery systems. He is also interested in MEMS
sciences such as MEMS material (mechanical and thermal) properties,
micro fluid mechanics, and micro/nano processing issues. Yu-Chong
Tai is the director of the Caltech Micromachining Laboratory,
which is a complete micromachining facility including a clean-room
processing lab, a computer lab, and a measurement/testing lab.
The facility is currently sponsoring more than 20 researchers
(14 Ph.D. students among them) for micromachining.
