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Device Integration Technology for Practical Flexible Electronics Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible device integration technologies are essential for realizing practical flexible electronic systems. In this review paper, wiring and bonding techniques critical for the industrial‐scale manufacturing of wearable devices are emphasized based on flexible electronics.
Masahito Takakuwa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous lab-on-a-chip generic architecture for disposables with integrated actuation

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2019
The integration of actuators within disposable lab-on-a-chip devices is a demanding goal that requires reliable mechanisms, systematic fabrication procedures and marginal costs compatible with single-use devices.
Anke Suska, Daniel Filippini
doaj   +1 more source

Fused switch [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
An electric switch device is described which can be used safely even in an explosive environment. The switch has an operating arm, and a moveable actuator which is engaged by the arm and moved between a number of positions in which the arm opens or ...
Weber, G. J.
core   +1 more source

Multiband Switchable Microwave Absorbing Metamaterials Based on Reconfigurable Kirigami–Origami

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A reconfigurable metamaterial featuring tunable microwave‐absorbing and load‐bearing performance is proposed. Stretchable kirigami and bistable origami configurations are integrated as actuating components, and the synergistic deformation mechanisms are systematically analyzed.
Weimin Ding   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The LDCM actuator for vibration suppression [PDF]

open access: yes
A linear dc motor (LDCM) has been proposed as an actuator for the COFS I mast and the COFS program ground test Mini-Mast. The basic principles of operation of the LDCM as an actuator for vibration suppression in large flexible structures are reviewed ...
Ide, Eric N., Lindner, Douglas K.
core   +1 more source

Construction and Characterization of a Frequency-Controlled, Picometer-Resolution, Displacement Encoder-Actuator

open access: yes, 2015
We have constructed an actuator/encoder whose generated displacement is controlled through the resonance frequency of a microwave cavity. A compact, 10-micrometer-range, digitally-controlled actuator executing frequency-coded displacement with picometer ...
Holczer, Karoly   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Ice Lithography: Recent Progress Opens a New Frontier of Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review focuses on recent advancements in ice lithography, including breakthroughs in compatible precursors and substrates, processes and applications, hardware, and digital methods. Moreover, it offers a roadmap to uncover innovation opportunities for ice lithography in fields such as biological, nanoengineering and microsystems, biophysics and ...
Bingdong Chang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Masked Autoencoders for Ultrasound Signals: Robust Representation Learning for Downstream Applications

open access: yesIEEE Access
We investigated the adaptation and performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures for self-supervised representation learning on one-dimensional (1D) ultrasound signals.
Immanuel Robteutscher   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial for the Special Issue on Piezoelectric MEMS

open access: yesMicromachines, 2018
Electromechanical transducers that utilize the piezoelectric effect have been increasingly used in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) either as substrates or as thin films[...]
Ulrich Schmid, Michael Schneider
doaj   +1 more source

Superconducting linear actuator [PDF]

open access: yes
Special actuators are needed to control the orientation of large structures in space-based precision pointing systems. Electromagnetic actuators that presently exist are too large in size and their bandwidth is too low.
Hockney, Richard, Johnson, Bruce
core   +1 more source

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