Nicholas J. Mourlas
Doctoral Alumnus

EDUCATION: 

• A.B./B.E. Mechanical Engineering: Dartmouth College 1992
• M.S. Electrical Engineering: Case Western Reserve University 1996
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering: Stanford University 2002

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Founder and President, Acumen Medical, Inc.
• 2001 Stanford Biomedical Technology Innovation Fellow
• 1996 - 1997, Lucas Nova Sensor, Micro-device Consultant
• 1996 Summer, Lucas Nova Sensor, Research Intern
• 1992 - 1994, Reliable Power Products, Design Engineer
• 1991 Winter, Reliable Power Products, Engineering Intern
• 1990 Summer, Reliable Power Products, Engineering Intern

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Microfluidic couplers, interconnects, sensors, and dynamic chemical processing for biological and clinical diagnostic applications.

PUBLICATIONS:

• N.J. Mourlas, N. I. Maluf, and G. T. A. Kovacs, "An in-line osmometer for application to a cell-based biosensor system." Accepted to Sensors and Actuators B, September 7, 2001.
• N.J. Mourlas, N. I. Maluf, and G. T. A. Kovacs, "An in-line osmometer for tissue based sensor applications". Proceedings of the 11thInternational Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators Transducers'01, Munich, Germany, June 16 - 23, 2000.
• N.J. Mourlas, D. Jaeggi, N. I. Maluf, and G. T. A. Kovacs, "Reusable microfluidic coupler with pdms gasket." Proceedings of the 10thInternational Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators Transducers'99, Sendai. Japan, June 7 - 10, 1999.
• N.J. Mourlas, D. Jaeggi, A.F. Flannery, B.L. Gray, B.P. van Drieënhuizen, C.W. Storment, N.I. Maluf, and G.T.A. Kovacs, "novel interconnection and channel technologies for microfluidics," Proceedings of Micro Total Analysis Systems (µ-TAS) Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 13 - 16, 1998, pp. 27 - 30.
• N.J. Mourlas, K.C. Stark, M. Mehregany, and S.M. Phillips, "Exploring polysilicon micromotors for data storage micro disks," in Proceedings, IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (San Diego, CA, Feb. 1996), pp. 198-204.
• B.L. Gray, D. Jaeggi, N.J. Mourlas, B.P. van Drieënhuizen, K.R. Williams, N.I. Maluf, and G.T.A. Kovacs, "novel interconnection technologies for integrated microfluidic systems," Sensor and Actuators, 1999, accepted.
• A.F. Flannery, N.J. Mourlas, C.W. Storment, S. Tsai, S.H. Tan, J. Heck, D. Monk, T. Kim, B. Gogoi, G.T.A. Kovacs, "PECVD silicon carbide as a chemically resistant material for micromachined transducers," Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 70, Nov.1998, pp. 48 - 55.
• D. Jaeggi, B.L. Gray, N.J. Mourlas, B.P. van Drieënhuizen, K.R. Williams, N.I. Maluf, G.T.A. and Kovacs, "Novel interconnection technologies for integrated microfluidic systems," Proceedings of the Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head, South Carolina, June 8 - 11, 1998, pp. 112 - 115.
• A.F. Flannery, N.J. Mourlas, C.W. Storment, S. Tsai, S.H. Tan, and G.T.A. Kovacs, "PECVD silicon carbide for micromachined transducers," in Proceedings Transducers '97 (Chicago, IL, Jun. 1997)
• A.A. Yasseen, N.J. Mourlas, and M. Mehregany, "Chemical mechanical polishing for polysilicon surface micromachining," Journal of the Electrochemical Society v 144 n 1 Jan 1997. p 237-242.

OTHER LINKS:

• Medical Device Network
• bases.stanford.edu