Rosana Alves Dias
Staff Researcher
Integrated Micro and Nanotechnologies
Rosana Dias is a Staff Researcher in the Integrated Micro and Nanotechnologies research group at INL. Her expertise concerns the development of sensors and actuators to meet the technical challenges faced by society and industry. She has large experience in modelling, design, fabrication and testing of MEMS devices. Her research interests range from mechanical sensors (eg. acceleration and magnetic field sensing) to energy harvesting devices (piezoelectric AlN and EMF-based induction) and flexible substrate-based applications. She obtained her PhD in the MEMS area, focusing on pull-in time accelerometers, inclinometers and gas viscosity sensing, at the University of Minho. Rosana has spent several months as a visitor at the Delft University of Technology and the University of British Columbia. She has also been the main responsible, as a post-doctoral researcher, for the design of a MEMS magnetometer for space applications, within a European Space Agency project.
Selected Publications
- R.A. Dias, F.S. Alves, M. Costa, H. Fonseca, J. Cabral, J. Gaspar and L.A. Rocha
Real-time operation and characterization of a high performance time-based accelerometer
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 24 (2015), pp. 1703-1711
- F.S. Alves, R.A. Dias, J. M. Cabral, J. Gaspar and L.A. Rocha
High-resolution MEMS inclinometer based on pull-in voltage
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 24 (2015), pp. 931-939
- R. A. Dias, G. de Graaf, R.F. Wolffenbuttel and L.A. Rocha
Gas viscosity sensing based on electrostatic pull-in time of microactuators
Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical, vol. 216 (2014), pp. 376–385
- R. A. Dias and L.A. Rocha
Improving capacitance/damping ratio in a capacitive MEMS transducer
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 24 (2014), 15pp