Cristian Cassella
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- c.cassella@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Office
- 422 ISEC
- 617.373.7509
Research Focus
Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers
Education
- PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015
Honors & Awards
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Research Overview
Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- J.M. Puder, J.S. Pulskamp, R.R. Rudy, C. Cassella, M. Rinaldi, G. Chen, S. Bhave, R.G. Polcawich, Rapid Harmonic Analysis of Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonic Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 6(65), 2018, 979-990
- G. Chen, C. Cassella, T. Wu, M. Rinaldi, Single-Chip Multi-Frequency Wideband Filters Based on Aluminum Nitride Cross-Sectional Lamé Mode Resonators with Thick and Apodized Electrodes, IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2018, 775-778
- C. Cassella, S. Strachan, Shaw, G. Piazza, Phase Noise Suppression through Parametric Filtering, Applied Physics Letters, 110(6), 2017, 063503
- Z. Qian, V. Rajaram, R. Sungho Kang, T. Wu, C. Cassella, N. McGruer, M. Rinaldi, Zero Power Infrared Digitizers Based on Plasmonicallyenhanced Micromechanical Photoswitches, Nature Nanotechnology, 12(10), 2017, 969 – 973
- B. Gibson, K. Qalandar, C. Cassella, G. Piazza, K. Turner, A study on the Effects of Release Area on the Quality Factor of Contour-Mode Resonators by Laser Doppler Vibrometry, IEEE Transaction on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectric and Frequency Control, 5(64), 2017, 898-904
- C. Cassella, Aluminum Nitride Cross-Sectional Lamé Mode Resonators, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 25(2), 2016, 275-285
- C. Cassella, G. Piazza, Low Phase-Noise Autonomous Parametric Oscillator Based on a 226.7 MHz AlN Contour-Mode Resonator, IEEE transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 62(4) 2015, 617-624.
Oct 01, 2020
Using Two-Dimensional Mode Resonators for High Frequency Filtering
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella as awarded a patent for “Two-dimensional mode resonators”.
Jun 03, 2020
Rinaldi and Cassella Awarded Patent for “Microelectromechanical Resonant Circulators”
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella were awarded a patent for “Microelectromechanical resonant circulator”.
Mar 30, 2020
Applied Physics Letters Featured Article
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Casella recently had his article, Aluminum Nitride Two-Dimensional-Resonant-Rods accepted in Applied Physics Letters Journal.
Aug 23, 2019
Cassella Receives NSF Award to Enable Longer Battery Lifetime and Next-Generation Micro- and Nano-Sensors
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $437K NSF award from the CCSS-Comms Circuits & Sens Sys program for “Fully Integrated Parametric Filters for Extensive Phase-Noise Reduction in Low-Power RF Front-Ends and Resonant Sensing Platforms.” The research program aims to exploit, for the first time, […]
Aug 30, 2018
New Faculty Spotlight: Cristian Cassella
Cristian Cassella joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor.
Oct 06, 2017
Rinaldi & McGruer Featured on Cover of Nature Nanotechnology
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Professor Nicol McGruer’s research on “Zero-power infrared digitizers based on plasmonically enhanced micromechanical photoswitches” was featured on the cover of Nature Nanotechnology.