Erdinc Tatar

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng.

National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM)

Bilkent University

Ankara, Turkey

 

Contact

email: etatar[at]ee.bilkent.edu.tr

office: EE-301

tel.: +90-312-290-3193

 

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Erdinc Tatar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University.  He is also affiliated with National Nanotechnology Center of Turkey (UNAM).  He received B.S. and M.S. degrees (with high honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2008, 2010, and 2016 respectively.

He was a Graduate Research Assistant with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Research and Applications Center, METU, and with Carnegie Mellon University from 2008 to 2011, and 2012 to 2016, respectively.  From 2016 to 2019 he worked as a MEMS Design Engineer responsible for the development of next generation gyroscopes in Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA.  His research interests include MEMS sensors (specifically Inertial and Gas sensors), microfabrication and packaging technologies, and readout and control electronics for MEMS sensors.

Dr. Tatar is a recipient of International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Tukey), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship, and European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant by the European Union.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

·          “Towards no-drift sensors with on-chip self-calibration, 0-drift”, European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, Principle Investigator, 10/2023-09/2028, total budget €1,650,000 (~$1,800,000).

·          “A Universal Acoustic MEMS Gas Sensor with Machine Learning – SmartGas”, European Commission, H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program, Principle Investigator, 05/2021-04/2023, total budget €157,355 (~$173,000).

·          “A Circular MEMS Gyroscope with on-chip Stress Compensation”, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Program, Principle Investigator, 12/2019-11/2022, total budget 2,671,407 TL (~$300,000).

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

·         M. Hosseini-Pishrobat, D. Erkan, and E. Tatar, “Modeling and analysis of a MEMS gyroscope subject to imperfections,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 362, November 2023, 114639.

 

·         B.E. Uzunoglu, D. Erkan, and E. Tatar, “A ring gyroscope with on-chip stress compensation,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 31, no. 5, October 2022, pp.741-752.  Identified by JMEMS among the 2 papers of the issue of excellent quality and highlighted in JMEMS RightNow papers to a large community of readers with a limited time open access.

 

·         M. Hosseini-Pishrobat, and E. Tatar, “Modeling and analysis of a MEMS gyroscope subject to imperfections,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 31, no.4, August 2022, pp. 546-560. 

 

·         E. Tatar, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “Stress effects and compensation of bias drift in a MEMS vibratory-rate gyroscope,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 26, no.3, June 2017, pp. 569-579.  Identified by JMEMS among the 3 papers of the issue of excellent quality and highlighted in JMEMS RightNow papers to a large community of readers with a limited time open access.

 

·         E. Tatar, S.E. Alper, and T. Akin, “Quadrature-error compensation and corresponding effects on the performance of fully decoupled MEMS gyroscopes,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 21, no.3, June 2012, pp. 656-667.

 

·         E. Tatar, “MEMS sensor drift compensation with on-chip stress sensing,” Proceedings of IEEE TRANSDUCERS2023, Kyoto, Japan, June 25-29, 2023, pp. 292-297, invited talk.

 

·         D. Erkan, A.A. Derin, and E. Tatar, “A universal gas sensing concept through acoustic coupling in a cavity,” Proc. of IEEE TRANSDUCERS2013, Kyoto, Japan, June 25-29, 2023, pp. 682-685.

 

·         T. Veske, D. Erkan, and E. Tatar, “Characterization of packaging stress with a capacitive stress sensor array,” Proceedings of IEEE MEMS2023, Munich, Germany, January 15-19, 2023, pp. 909-912.

 

·         M. Hosseini-Pishrobat, B.E. Uzunoglu, and E. Tatar, “Modeling stress effects on frequencies of a MEMS ring gyroscope,” Proceedings of IEEE MEMS2023, Munich, Germany, January 15-19, 2023, pp.869-872.

 

·         M. Hosseini-Pishrobat, B.E. Uzunoglu, D. Erkan, and E.Tatar, “An analytical model for vibration analysis of disk resonator gyroscopes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems-INERTIAL2022, Avignon, France, May 8-11, 2022.

 

·         M. Hosseini-Pishrobat, and E. Tatar, “Analysis of quadrature and frequency split in a MEMS vibrating ring gyroscope with structural imperfections,” Proceedings of IEEE TRANSDUCERS2021, virtual conference, June 20-24, 2021, pp. 1291-1295.

 

·         E. Tatar, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “On-chip stress compensation on the ZRO of a mode matched MEMS gyroscope,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems-INERTIAL2016, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, Feb. 22-25, 2016, pp. 128-131.

 

·         E. Tatar, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “Nonlinearity tuning and its effects on the performance of a MEMS gyroscope,” Proc. of IEEE TRANSDUCERS2015, Anchorage, AK, USA, June 21-25, 2015, pp. 1133-1136.

 

·         E. Tatar, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “On-chip characterization of stress effects on gyroscope zero rate output and scale factor,” Proc. of IEEE MEMS2015, Estoril, Portugal, January 18-22, 2015, pp. 813-816.

 

·         E. Tatar, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “Simulation of stress effects on mode-matched MEMS gyroscope bias and scale factor,” Proceedings of IEEE PLANS2014, Monterey, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2014, pp.16-20.

 

·         E. Tatar, C. Guo, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “Effect of stress on matched-mode gyroscope frequencies,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems-INERTIAL2014, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, Feb. 25-26, 2014, pp. 1-4.

 

·         E. Tatar, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “Tuning of nonlinearities and quality factor in a MEMS gyroscope,” Proceedings of MEMS2014, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 26-30, 2014, pp. 801-804.

 

·         E. Tatar, C. Guo, T. Mukherjee, and G.K. Fedder, “Interaction effects of temperature and stress on matched-mode gyroscope frequencies,” Proceedings of IEEE TRANSDUCERS2013, Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013, pp. 2527-2530.

 

·         C. Guo, E. Tatar, and G.K. Fedder, “Large displacement parametric resonance using a shaped comb drive,” Proceedings of IEEE MEMS2013, Taipei, Taiwan, January 20-24, 2013, pp. 173-176.

 

·         E. Tatar, M.M. Torunbalci, S.E. Alper, and T. Akin, “A method and electrical model for the anodic bonding of SOI and glass wafers,” Proceedings of IEEE MEMS2012, Paris, France, Jan 29-Feb.2, 2012, pp. 68-71.

 

·         M.M. Torunbalci, E. Tatar, S.E. Alper, and T. Akin, “Comparison of two alternative silicon-on-glass microfabrication processes for MEMS inertial sensors,” Proceedings of EurosensorsXXV, Athens, Greece, September 4-7, 2011, pp. 900-903.

 

·         E. Tatar, S.E. Alper, and T. Akin, “Effect of quadrature error on the performance of a fully-decoupled MEMS gyroscope,” Proceedings of IEEE MEMS2011, Cancun, Mexico January 23-27, 2011, pp. 569-572.