• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Sy-Bor Wen

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley – 2006
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan – 1999
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan – 1997

Research Interests

    • Laser processing with ultrahigh speed pulsed laser
    • Chemical analysis with laser-induced plasma
    • Nanomaterial generation with laser ablation
    • Nanoscale energy and mass transport with near field effects

Selected Publications

  • Sy-Bor Wen, Kevin Ly, "Direct numerical simulation of laser induced breakdown and the associated micro-cavitation in a bio-tissue", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 131,873-889, 2018
  • Sy-Bor Wen, Arun Bhaskar and Hongjie Zhang, “Scanning digital lithography providing high speed large area patterning with diffraction limited sub-micron resolution”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 28, 07501, 2018
  • Sy-Bor Wen, Kevin Ly, Morgan Schmidt, Robert Thomas, “Direct numerical simulation of the initial stage of a thermally induced micro cavitation in a water-rich bio-tissue triggered by a nanosecond pulsed laser”, Journal of biomedical optics, 2017
  • Wen, S. B., Sundaram, V. M*, NcBride, D.*, Yang, Y.*, Low-cost, high-precision micro-lensed optical fiber providing deep-micrometer to deep-nanometer-level light focusing, Optic Letters 41, 2016
  • Sundaram, V. M*, Wen, S. B., Analysis of deep sub-micron resolution in microsphere based imaging, Applied Physics Letters, 105, 204102, 2014