POENAR, Daniel Puiu
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Division of Microelectronics

Phone: (65) 6790 4237, Fax: (65) 6792 0415
Office: S2.2-B2-06
Email: epdpuiu@ntu.edu.sg

Biography

M.Sc.: Polytechnic University Bucharest, Romania - 1989
Ph.D . : Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands) - 1996
Summary of Working Experience:


Jan.2000- present: NTU, Assistant Professor
Oct.1996-Jan.2000: MEMS Dept. of Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore - Senior Research Engineer.

Research Interest

Sensors & actuators; MEMS; (Bio)chemical sensors; bio-photonics; colour discriminators (e.g. using triple junction structures); optical detection for (Bio)chemical application in spectrometry, electrophoresis, chromatography, etc.

Selected Research Projects

  • “BioMEMS for Cell Characterization” ( Research and fabrication of silicon-based devices for electrical and optical characterization of cells ) 2002-2005, extended with 1 year until Aug.2006- 1.85 mil. S$ - A*STAR funded – Multidisciplinary project between NTU, NUS & NIE. Presently in the project are working 1 Ph.D. student (NUS), 1 RF (NIE), 2 P.O.s and 1 R.A. (NTU).

  • “ Biochemical Sensing Devices ” ( Research and fabrication of silicon-based microfabricated analytical devices for bio/ chemical purposes ) – AcRF project, Budget 174 k$, carried out between 2000…2003. Three Ph.D. students and 2 M.Sc. students were trained within this project.

Selected Publications

  • Q. Ramadan, Y. Chen, V. Samper, and D.P. Poenar, “Multi-range transportation of magnetic beads in microfluidic devices”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol.88 (Jan.2006), p. 032501(1-3).
  • Q. Ramadan, V. Samper, L. Zhu, D.P. Poenar, Y. Chen, “ Microfluidic DNA sample preparation by Dielectrophoresis and Electroporation”, Sensors & Actuators-B, vol.113 (2006), p.944-955.
  • Q. Ramadan, V. Samper, D.P. Poenar, and Y. Chen, “An Integrated Microfluidic Platform for Magnetic Microbeads Separation & Confinement”, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, vol.21 (2006), p.1693-1702.
  • Ramadan, V. Samper, D.P. Poenar, and Y. Chen, “Evaluation of current-carrying wires for manipulation of magnetic micro/nano particles for bio-medical applications ”, International Journal of Nanoscience, vol. 4 (2005), no.4, p. 489-499.
  • D.P. Poenar and R.F. Wolffenbuttel, “Thin film optical sensors with silicon-compatible materials”, Appl. Opt., vol.36, no.21, 20 July 1997, p.5109-5121.