David Elata
Professor
Faculty
Phone:
+972-77-8873184
Fax:
+972-77-8875711
Email:
elata@technion.ac.il
Office:
221, DK
Website:
https://mems.technion.ac.il/
Mechanical Engineering MicroSystem (MEMS) Laboratory
Education
- 1986 - B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- 1989 - M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T., Israel
- 1993 - D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T., Israel
Research Interests
- Modeling the Static and Dynamic Response of Electrostatic Micro-Actuators
- Modeling and Development of Novel Thermoelastic Actuation Schemes for MEMS Devices
- Modeling the electromechanical Response of Piezoelectric Micro-Structures
- Electromechanical Buckling and Application in MEMS
- Micro Test-Devices for measuring Mechanical Properties
- Damage Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Contact Mechanics
Guest Appointments
- Research Associate, Geophysics Dept., Stanford University (summer of 1996)
- Visiting Post-Doc, Geophysics Dept., Stanford University (1995-1996)
- Post-Doc staff member, Earth Sciences Div., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1993-1996)
Membership in Professional Societies
- ASME, IEEE
Honors and Awards
- Ray and Miriam Klein Research Award (2006)
- Hershel Rich Innovation Award (2004)
- Salomon Simon Mani Award for excellence in teaching (2000)
- Leah & Donald Lewis Academic Lectureship (1997, 1998)
- Wolf Foundation Scholarship (1992)
- Gutwirth Scholarship (1988, 1989)
- Dr. Abraham Eisen Award (1987)
- S. Shmulevich, A. Joffe, I. (Hotzen) Grinberg and D. Elata, "On the notion of a mechanical battery". IEEE-JMEMS, 24(4), 1085-1091, 2015.
- S. Shmulevich, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, "A MEMS implementation of a classic parametric resonator", IEEE-JMEMS, 24(5), 1285-1292, 2015.
- S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, "Dynamically-balanced folded-beam suspensions for resonators", IEEE-JMEMS, 24(6), 1965-1972, 2015.
- I. (Hotzen) Grinberg, S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, "Selective stiffening for enhancing and/or reversing the action of thermoelastic actuators". IEEE-JMEMS, 25(6), 999-1004, 2016.
- S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, "A MEMS implementation of the classic Meissner parametric resonator: exploring high-order windows of unbounded response". IEEE-JMEMS, 26(2), 325-332, 2017.
- I. (Hotzen) Grinberg, N. Maccabi, A. Kassie, D. Elata, "A piezoelectric twisting beam actuator". IEEE-JMEMS, 26(6), 1279-1286, 2017.
- E. Benvenisty and D. Elata, “Frequency matching of orthogonal wineglass modes in disk and ring resonators made from (100) silicon”. IEEE SENSORS Letters, 3(3), 1-4, 2019.
מיקרו-מערכות: אקטואציה אלקטרוסטטית, אקטואציה תרמואלסטית, תכן התקני MEMS לבדיקת תכונות מכניות של מיקרומיבנים, אקטואציה פיאזואלקטרית, רכיבים להתקני BIOMEMS, ומתגים מיקרומכניים ל RF-MEMS.
