Head of Group
Prof. David Elata
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.
Lab Engineer
Dr. Michael Feldman
Dr. Michael Feldman completed his PhD in Moscow Machine-Instrument Institute in 1977; worked as a senior researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow; currently works as a computer system engineer and an adjunct associated professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
He was an editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (2008-2017).
He is a coauthor of two books published in Russia on the subject of computer-aided experiment in dynamics of machines; the author book Hilbert Transform Applications in Mechanical Vibration Wiley, 2011, and the author of more than thirty articles dedicated to the Hilbert transform applications published recently in research journals.
Current Students
Alumni
| Photo | Name | Currently | When | Research Topic |
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Dr. Ronen Ashkenazi | Founder, M.R.E., Israel. | Ph.D., 2001–2004 | Fatigue of steel wire ropes |
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Dr. Samy Abu-Salih | Braude College, Karmiel, Israel. | Ph.D., 2002–2006 | Modeling and analysis of electromechanical buckling with application to novel MEMS devices |
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Dr. Rashed Mahameed | Apple, Israel. | Ph.D., 2003–2006 | Thermal effects in micro-systems, and application in novel micro-devices |
| M.Sc., 2001–2003 | A novel thermoelastic actuation scheme for micro resonators | |||
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Dr. Saar Golan | Ariel University, Israel. | Ph.D., 2003–2007 | Differentiation of multi species biofluids by dielectrophoretic field flow fractionation |
| M.Sc., 2000–2002 | The relationship between the anatomy of the Canaliculi, the pressure at its ends and the blood flow through it | |||
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Dr. Vitaly Leus | Ph.D., 2005–2009 | New efficient methods for modeling, design and actuation of electrostatic micro mechanical devices | |
| M.Sc., 2003–2005 | Modeling the static and dynamic responses of electrostatic MEMS switches | |||
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Dr. Arnon Hirshberg | Ph.D., 2005–2013 | Mechanical coupling in deformable structures in micro-systems | |
| M.Sc., 2002–2004 | Novel test devices for measuring mechanical properties of MEMS structures | |||
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Dr. Shai Shmulevich | Ph.D., 2012–2016 | Enhancing the functionality of MEMS actuators by tailoring nonlinear effects | |
| M.Sc., 2010–2012 | Measures of the response of electromechanical resonators | |||
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Dr. Inbar (Hotzen) Greenberg | Ph.D., 2013–2017 | Smart micro structures: directional features for enhancing the performance of micro-transducers | |
| M.Sc., 2011–2013 | MEMS resonators | |||
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Dr. Danny A. Kassie | Ph.D., 2016–2022 | Investigation of the response of resonators and parametric resonators | |
| M.Sc., 2015–2016 | Thermally compensated folded-beam suspension | |||
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Dr. David Rosenstock | Ph.D., 2022–2026 | The planar mechanical response of structures that are made of cubic anisotropic solids | |
| M.Sc., 2020–2022 | The nonlinear dynamics of vibrating rings | |||
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Dani Strasser | M.Sc., 1999–2003 | Binding layers for delaying damage in electronic boards | |
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Eyal Elka | M.Sc., 2003–2004 | The electromechanical response of multi-layered piezoelectric structures | |
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Matan Naftali | CEO, Founder, Maradin Ltd. | M.Sc., 2002–2004 | Towards a linear response of vertical comb-drive actuators |
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Ofir Barzely | M.Sc., 2003–2005 | Double sided comb drive with latching stators to minimize actuation voltages | |
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Shay Yulzary | M.Sc., 2005–2008 | Electromechanical instabilities in MEMS | |
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Michael Lerman | M.Sc., 2008–2010 | The quality of quality-factor in micro resonators | |
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Alon Benhaim | M.Sc., 2009–2011 | Self-alignment using electromagnetic induction for mass | |
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Ben Rivlin | M.Sc., 2011–2012 | Non-linear springs for achieving prescribed electromechanical transduction | |
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Osher Shapira | M.Sc., 2011–2013 | Implementation of electromagnetic induction in finite rectangular loops for self-alignment and levitation | |
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Tal Rubin | M.Sc., 2011–2013 | A simple constitutive model for dielectric charging based on Frenkel-Poole mechanism and a derivation of Maxwell stresses | |
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Ido Zaltzman | M.Sc., 2012–2015 | Electromechanical Franklin oscillators | |
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Daniel Ekeltchik | M.Sc., 2014–2015 | MEMS devices for measuring strength of microbeams | |
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Aharon Joffe | M.Sc., 2014–2016 | Parametric amplification in electrostatic resonators | |
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Nadav Maccabi | M.Sc., 2016–2017 | Enhancing the functionality of unimorph piezoelectric actuators | |
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Ohad Berman | GE Medical | M.Sc., 2008–2017 | Process Development for a Dielectric Resonator |
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Eli Benvenisty | M.Sc., 2018–2019 | Vibration mode order in mechanical disk resonators | |
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Sahar Lustig | M.Sc., 2019–2020 | Piezoelectric Actuators and Vibrating Energy Harvesters | |
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Shir Benita | M.Sc., 2020–2021 | Single-crystalline piezoelectric linear actuators | |
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Sivan Levi | M.Sc., 2020–2021 | Wineglass mode resonators with optimized geometry for mode matching and mode ordering | |
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Eyal Ben-Yosef | M.Sc., 2019–2022 | Piezoelectric actuators | |
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Lior Musnikov | M.Sc., 2019–2022 | The nonlinear dynamics of vibrating beams | |
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Asaf Menashe | M.Sc., 2020–2022 | Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes operated by auto-resonance driving | |
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Itamar Shoham | M.Sc., 2020–2022 | Surface waves in single-crystalline piezoelectric actuators | |
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Julian Levinton | M.Sc., 2021–2022 | Single crystalline piezoelectric actuators | |
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Eliya Salman | M.Sc., 2023–2024 | Vibration of cantilever beams, with application to piezoelectric vibrating energy harvester (PVEH) devices | |
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Malachi Michelin | M.Sc., 2023–2024 | Auto resonance driving of frequency modulated Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes | |
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Gil Cahana | M.Sc., 2019–2025 | A continuously tunable multistable electrostatic transducer | |
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Lior Zaidenberg | M.Sc., 2024–2026 | Nonlinear resonators: emphasis on parametric and perfect resonance | |
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Alon Zalts | M.Sc., 2024–2026 | Mechanical and electrotechnical springs |