Electronics Design Center

The Electronics Design Center (EDC) is a world-renowned research center specializing in the development of microsensors and microsystems.  The Electronics Design Center dedicates itself to the facilitation of technology transfer between a university and an industrial environment.  The EDC is not only a research center but also a fully equipped microfabrication laboratory that provides services such as: metal sputtering and evaporation, wafer dicing, wire bonding, and thick film printing.  We specialize in small, prototyping runs of devices or can provide a service on a device that you already possess.  One of our unique strengths is applying microfabrication processes to non-silicon, non-traditional materials. For more information please contact the center's director:

Dr. Chung-Chiun Liu
Professor of Chemical Engineering and the
Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor Technology and Control
cxl9@case.edu
216-368-2935

The Mission of the EDC is to advance the science and technology of microsensors and microsystems for chemical and biological applications and to provide education, training, expertise and facilities for students, faculty, and industrial researchers to advance these technologies.

The EDC focuses on the advancement of science and technology of sensor research and provides facilities and training for academic and industrial research.  Applications for this research include medical, biological, automotive, industrial process control and various environmental uses.  The Center interacts with more than 80 companies worldwide.

Current work has been in the areas of chemical, and biological sensors.  Extensive work has been done on gas sensors such as H2, O2, NOx, and CO.  Another major area of research is microelectrochemical devices such as batteries and fuel cells.  The batteries and fuel cells are produced using standard microfabrication techniques resulting in very thin devices that are cheap to produce.  Miniaturized telemetry systems to transmit the sensor information to the outside world have been developed and are currently being revised to allow for more sensor outputs to be added.