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The Analysis of the Influence of Threshold on the Dynamic Contact Process of a Fabricated Vertically Driven MEMS Inertial Switch

open access: yesMicromachines, 2019
In this work, to evaluate the influence of the threshold on the dynamic contact process, five models (number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) with different thresholds were proposed and fabricated with surface micromachining technology.
Wenguo Chen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design, fabrication, and testing of silicon microgimbals for super-compact rigid disk drives [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This paper documents results related to design optimization, fabrication process refinement, and micron-level static/dynamic testing of silicon micromachined microgimbals that have applications in super-compact computer disk drives as well as many other ...
Hsieh, Wen H.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Transfer Printing and Reconfiguration of Soft Electronics Using Digital Microfluidics and Laser Machining

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This paper presents a digital microfluidics‐based technique for transferring and reconfiguring soft nanomembranes. Laser‐machined nanothin membranes are picked up, transported, and aligned via tailored surface tension and the actuation of water droplets, enabling the development of flexible electronics, the integration of functional materials on 3D ...
Quang Anh Nguyen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simple and Robust Microfabrication of Polymeric Piezoelectric Resonating MEMS Mass Sensors

open access: yesSensors, 2022
Resonating MEMS mass sensors are microdevices with broad applications in fields such as bioscience and biochemistry. Their advantageous surface-to-volume ratio makes their resonant frequency highly sensitive to variations in their mass induced by surface
Chang Ge, Edmond Cretu
doaj   +1 more source

Laser machining of sensing components on the end of optical fibres [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Micro-cantilevers play a major role in sensing, especially since the invention of the atomic force microscope. Applications range from surface profiling to bio-medical sensing enabled through coating-activated cantilevers.
Albri, Frank   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Laser‐Assisted Processing and Modification of Bioactive Glasses: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Laser technologies provide powerful tools to process and transform bioactive glasses for advanced biomedical applications. This review discusses laser‐matter interaction mechanisms, laser surface engineering, and laser‐assisted fabrication of scaffolds and nanofibers.
Antonio Riveiro   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the effects of electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM) on the dimensional accuracy and surface integrity of the PDMS microchannel

open access: yesSN Applied Sciences, 2022
Article highlights The electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM) process was used to fabricate a microchannel on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with the surface quality similar to lithography.
Arsalan Torabi, Mohammad Reza Razfar
doaj   +1 more source

Plasmonic Nanomachines: Creating Local Potential Gradients and Motions

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Plasmonic nanomachines can generate optical, thermal, and chemical potential gradients to drive directional rectilinear, rotational, and twisting motions at the nanometer scale. The integration of multimodal plasmonic forces with functional materials and programmed structural distortions enables precise spatiotemporal actuation, thereby providing a ...
Yoonhee Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electrochemical Deposition of Pure-Nickel Microstructures with Controllable Size

open access: yesMicromachines, 2022
Pure nickel microstructures have been widely used in MEMS and have great application potential as a sacrificial mandrel for fabricating terahertz micro-cavity components.
Xiaolei Bi, Lingchao Meng
doaj   +1 more source

High-speed Fabrication of Micro-channels using Line-based Laser Induced Plasma Micromachining (L-LIPMM) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Micro-texturing of surfaces has various applications that often involve texturing over large (macro-scale) areas with high precision and resolution. This demands scalability and speed of texturing while retaining feature sizes on the order of a few ?m.
Cao, Jian   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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