Brian Matthews

Alumni
Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles

Brian has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. His research interests include MEMS based biological interfaces. He is also founder of Cytonetics Inc. a startup company developing standard and customized electrode arrays for neuroscience research. **

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
  Micromachined Planar Patch-Clamp System of Electrophysiology Research (pdf)
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
  Effects of Electrode Configuration o n Polymer Carbon-Black Composite Chemical Vapor Sensor Performance (pdf)
• B.S., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994

• Planar patch-clamp systems
• Carbon-black chemical vapor sensors
• High-energy, baloon-bourn X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telecsopes (Caltech)

• EE M150L - MEMS Fabrication Laboratory (Fall 2000)

• EE 115A - Analog Electronic Circuits
• EE 150 - Introduction to MEMS
• EE 150L - Introduction to MEMS Laboratory
• EE 250A - MEMS Fabrication
• EE 250B - Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Device Physics and Design
• MAE 284 - Sensors, Actuators, and Signal Processing
• MS 180 - Introduction to Biomaterials
• MS 223 - Materials Science of Thin Films
• MS 298 - SEM In Engineering
• BIOMED 101 - Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
• BIOMED 202 - Basic Human Biology for Biomedical Engineers
• BIOMED 260 - Neuroengineering

• Cook W. R., Boggs S. E., Bolotnikov A. E., Burnham J. A., Harrison F. A., Kecman B., Matthews B., Schindler S.M., Fitzsimmons M., “First test results from a high resolution CdZnTe pixel detector with VLSI readout”, Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.3769, 1999, pp.92-6. USA.[|PDF]]
• Cook W.R., Boggs S.E., Bolotnikov A.E., Burnham J.A., Fitzsimmons M.J., Harrison F.A., Kecman B., Matthews B., Schindler S. M., “High resolution CdZnTe pixel detectors with VLSI readout”, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE Part vol.1, pp.529-32, 1999.[|PDF]]
• Cook W. R., Boggs S. E., Bolotnikov A.E., Burnham J.A., Fitzsimmons M. J., Harrison F. A., Kecman B., Matthews B., Schindler S. M., “High resolution CdZnTe pixel detectors with VLSI readout”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol.47, no.4, pt.1, pp.1454-7, August 2000.[|PDF]]
• Brian Matthews, Jing Li, Steven Sunshine, Lee Lerner, and Jack W. Judy, “Effects of Electrode Configuration on Polymer Carbon-Black Composite Chemical Vapor Sensor Performance”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 160-168, June 2002.[|PDF]]
• Brian Matthews and Jack W. Judy, “Characterization of a Micromachined Planar Patch Clamp for Cellular Electrophysiology”, 1st International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference, Capri, Italy (March 20-22, 2003).[|PDF]]
• Brian Matthews and Jack W. Judy, “Towards a Fully Automated Planar Patch Clamp Based Dose-Response Measurement System”, Seventh international conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems, Squaw Valley, California, USA (October 5-9, 2003).[|PDF]]
• Brian Matthews and Jack W. Judy, “A Micromachined Planar Patch-Clamp Chip With Integrated Microfluidics”, 2004 Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head, SC, USA (June 6-10).[|PDF]]
• Brian Matthews and Jack W. Judy, “Design and Fabrication of a Micromachined Planar Patch-Clamp Substrate With Integrated Microfluidics for Single-Cell Measurements,” J. Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 15 no. 1 February 2006. paper

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