Andrew A. Berlin, Ph.D.

Publications relating to Biomolecule detection and Microfluidics:

“Ultrasensitive detection and characterization of posttranslational modifications using surface- enhanced Raman spectroscopy”, Sundararajan N, Mao D, Chan S, Koo TW, Su X, Sun L, Zhang J, Sung KB, Yamakawa M, Gafken PR, Randolph T, McLerran D, Feng Z, Berlin AA, Roth MB. Anal Chem. 78(11): 3543-50 (June 1 2006).

“Composite Organic-Inorganic Nanoparticles (COIN) with Chemically Encoded Optical Signatures,” Su X, Sun L, Zhang J, Koo TW, Chan S, Sundararajan N, Yamakawa M, Berlin AA, Nano Letters, 5(1): 55-59, December 2004.

“Three dimensional hydrodynamic focusing in poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) microchannels.” Sundararajan, N., Pio, M.S., Lee, L.P. & Berlin, A. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 13, 559-567 (2004).

“Specific Chemical Effects on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Ultra-sensitive Detection of Biological Molecules,” Koo TW, Chan S, Sun L, Su X, Zhang J, and Berlin AA, Applied Spectroscopy 58(12): 1401-1407, December 2004.

“Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering of Small Molecules from Silver-Coated Silicon Nanopores,” Chan S, Kwon SH, Koo TW, Lee LP, and Berlin AA, Advanced Materials 15(19): 1583-1594, October 2003.

“Microfluidic operations using deformable polymer membranes fabricated by single layer soft lithography.”Sundararajan, N., Kim, D. & Berlin, A. Lab-on-a-Chip 5, 350-354 (2005).

“Single Molecule Detection of Biomolecules by Surface Enhanced Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering”, Koo TW, Chan S, Berlin AA, Optics Letters, 30(9): 1024-1026, May 2005.

"Composite organic-inorganic nanoparticles as Raman labels for tissue analysis", Sun L, Sung KB, Dentinger C, Lutz B, Nguyen L, Zhang J, Qin H, Yamakawa M, Cao M, Lu Y, Chmura AJ, Zhu J, Su X, Berlin AA, Chan S, Knudsen B., Nano Letters, 7(2): 351-6, Feb 2007.

Publications relating to MEMS and Smart Structures:

"Distributed MEMS: New Challenges for Computation", A. Berlin and K. Gabriel, IEEE Computational Science and Engineering Magazine, March 1997.

"Batch Fabrication of Pneumatic Valve Arrays by Combining MEMS with Printed Circuit Board Technology", P. Cheung, A. Berlin, D. Biegelsen, W. Jackson, Proceedings of the Symposium on Micro-Mechanical Systems, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Dallas, TX, Nov. 16-21.

“Motion Control of Planar Objects Using Large-Area Arrays of MEMS-like Distributed Manipulators”, Andrew Berlin, David Biegelsen, Patrick Cheung, Markus Fromherz, David Goldberg, Warren Jackson, Bryan Preas, James Reich, and Lars-Erik Swartz, Micromechatronics 2000.

"Air Jet Arrays for Precision Positional Control of Flexible Media", D. Biegelsen, W. Jackson, A. Berlin, and P. Cheung, International Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment (MIPE’97), Tokyo.

"Active Control of Buckling using Piezo-Ceramic Actuators", A. Berlin, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Smart Structures and Materials 1995: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies Mar 2-3 95 v 2447 1995 San Diego, CA, USA

"Distributed Information Systems for MEMS", A. Berlin, Chair. A study by the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group, 1995.

"Active Structural Enhancement", A. Berlin, Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (GOMAC94), US Department of Defense, 1994. (Invited paper).

"Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Column Buckling", Ph.D. Thesis, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994. Also available as MIT AI Lab Technical Report #1590.

"MEMS-based control of structural dynamic instability" , G. Chase, M. Yim, A. Berlin, S. Jacobsen, M. Olivier, B. Maclean, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Dallas, TX, Nov. 16-21.

"Increasing the Compressive Strength of a Column via Active Control", Andrew Berlin and Gerald Jay Sussman, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Structures, Oct. 1992. Also published as an article in a book entitled Adaptive Structures, published by Teknomic publishing company, 1993.

"Inertial Stabilization of Buckling", M. Yim, G. Chase, and A. Berlin 

"Integrated centering control for inertially actuated systems", G. Chase, M. Yim, A. Berlin, Control Engineering Practice, 7(9) September 1999 1079-1084

Active control of structural buckling instability: practical trade-offs and design considerations”, AA Berlin, JG Chase, MH Yim - Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures and Materials, 2003 1026-1035

Publications relating to Computer Architecture and Compilation Techniques:

"Partial Evaluation for Scientific Computing: The Supercomputer Toolkit Experience", Andrew A. Berlin, Rajeev J. Surati: PEPM 1994 – Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Transformation Techniques, Orlando, FL , 1994. Pages 133-141. Also available as MIT AI Laboratory memo #1487.

"Exploiting the Parallelism Exposed By Partial Evaluation", R. Surati and A. Berlin, Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.3 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Elsevier Science, 1994

"The Supercomputer Toolkit: A general framework for special-purpose computing", H. Abelson, A. Berlin, J. Katzenelson, W. McAllister, G. Rozas, G.J. Sussman, and J. Wisdom, International Journal of High-Speed Electronics, vol. 3, no. 3, 1992, pp. 337-361. Also available as MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo number 1329, November 1991, and as Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Technical Report Number HPL-94-30.

"Compiling Scientific Code Using Partial Evaluation", Andrew Berlin and Daniel Weise, IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, no. 12, Dec. 1990.

"Partial Evaluation Applied to Numerical Computation", Andrew Berlin, ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming, June 1990.

"The Supercomputer Toolkit and its Applications", H.Abelson, A. Berlin, J. Katzenelson, W. McAllister, J. Rozas, and G.J. Sussman, Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology V, Oct. 1990.

A Compilation Strategy for Numerical Programs Based on Partial Evaluation, Andrew Berlin, S.M. Thesis, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT AI Lab Technical Report #1144, July 1989.

"Scheme86 -- A System for Interpreting Scheme", Andrew Berlin and Henry Wu, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming, 1988.

"The Integrated Circuits Procedural Language", J. Lewis, A. Berlin, A. Kuchinsky,  P. Yip, Hewlett-Packard Journal, June 1986.

A Digital Gaussian Convolver for Visual Images, Andrew Berlin, S.B. Thesis, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT VLSI Memo #85-250, June 1985.