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Biofilm formed on the surface of the object by the microorganism resulting in fouling organisms. This has led to many problems in daily life, medicine, health and industrial community. In this study, we tried ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:16
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small membrane-bound bodies that are released into extracellular space by diverse cells, and are found in body fluids like blood, urine and saliva. EVs contain RNA, DNA and pro...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:15
Wireless power transmission was conceptualized nearly a century ago. Certain achievements made to date have made power harvesting a reality, capable of providing alternative sources of energy. This review prov...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:14
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioinspired energy converter which directly converts biomass into electricity through the catalytic activity of a specific species of bacteria. The effect of temperature on a m...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:13
Highly reactive integrated material systems have recently gained attention, as they promise a feasible tool for heterogeneous integration of micro electromechanical systems. As integrated energy sources they c...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:12
Ion concentration polarization (ICP) has been widely studied for collecting target analytes as it is a powerful preconcentrator method employed for charged molecules. Although the method is quite robust, simpl...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:11
High throughput nanomanufacturing of photopatternable nanofibers and subsequent photopatterning is reported. For the production of high density nanofibers, the tube nozzle electrospinning (TNE) process has bee...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:10
We herein report on a simple and novel method of refractometry that uses a micro image defocusing technique. This simple method makes use of a three-pinhole aperture attached to a microscopic optical system. I...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:9
Recently, novel biomolecules separation and detection methods based on ion concentration polarization (ICP) phenomena have been extensively researched due to its high amplification ratio and high-speed accumul...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:8
We report piezoresistive high-g three-axis accelerometer with a single proof mass suspended by thin eight beams. This eight-beam design allows load-sharing at high-g preventing structural breakage, as well as ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:7
Controlling cells’ movement is an important technique in biological analysis that is performed within a microfluidic system. Many external forces are utilized for manipulation of cells, including their positio...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:6
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This paper presents a novel dual-axis accelerometer that consists of a liquid metal droplet in a cone-shaped channel and an electrode layer with four Nichrome electrodes. The sensor uses the advantages of the ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:5
In this paper, we presents a MEMS pressure sensor integrated with a readout circuit on a chip for an on-chip signal processing. The capacitive pressure sensor is formed on a CMOS chip by using a post-CMOS MEMS...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:4
We fabricated and characterized microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based Ni–B probes with enhanced mechanical properties for fine pitch testing. The Ni–B micro-probes were compared with conventional Ni–Co m...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:3
Construction of three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment become an important issue in recent biological studies due to their biological relevance compared to conventional two-dimensional (2D) microenvironment. ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:2
MEMS laser scanning enables the miniaturization of endoscopic catheters for advanced endomicroscopy such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and many other laser scann...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:1
In this study, the effects of open area ratio (OAR) variations by micro-patterns on Cu alloy electrodeposition were analyzed experimentally. To change the OAR of the samples, a strip-type micro-pattern was for...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:9
Bacterial therapies have been paid significant attentions by their ability to penetrate deep into the solid tumor tissue and its propensity to naturally accumulate in tumors of living animals. Understanding th...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:8
In this paper, nano-silver ink-jet printed transmission lines were fabricated to investigate RF performance on both flame retardant (FR-4) and polyimide (PI) as rigid and flexible substrates. The transmission ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:7
This paper reports on a semiconductor gas sensor array to detect nitrogen oxides (NOx) in automotive exhaust gas. The proposed semiconductor gas sensor array consisted of one common electrode and three individual...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:6
In wet bulk micromachining, the etching characteristics are orientation dependent. As a result, prolonged etching of mask openings of any geometric shape on both Si{100} and Si{110} wafers results in a structu...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:5
This paper introduces a pneumatically driven inkjet printing system that forms highly viscous microdroplets in the nanoliter volume range. The printing system has a unique printing mechanism that uses a flexib...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:4
A point electron source is desired to improve performance of high brightness electron beam instruments. It is valuable to create nano-sized tungsten (W) tip from sharp ordinary polycrystalline W needle. The sh...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:3
Originally introduced by H. A. Pohl in 1951, dielectrophoretic (DEP) force has been used as a striking tool for biological particle manipulation (or separation) for the last few decades. In particular, dielect...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:2
The concepts of microrobots has been drawn significant attentions recently since its unprecedented applicability in nanotechnology and biomedical field. Bacteria attached microparticles presented in this work ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:1
An ingenious combination of plasmonic nanomaterials and one of the most relevant biological systems, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is achieved by bioconjugating gold nanorods (GNRs) with DNA via electrostatic in...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:8
In this brief a new low actuation voltage RF MEMS switch is presented which can be integrated and controlled with available CMOS technologies. Despite the advantages in the design of RF MEMS switches designing...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:7
Wet anisotropic etching based silicon micromachining is an important technique to fabricate freestanding (e.g. cantilever) and fixed (e.g. cavity) structures on different orientation silicon wafers for various...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:6
Utilizing nanofluid as an absorber fluid is an effective approach to enhance heat transfer in solar devices. The purpose of this review is to summarize the research done on the nanofluids’ applications in sola...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:5
A low-voltage, low-power method of electrically deforming a liquid-metal droplet via the direct manipulation of its surface tension is presented. By imposing a quasi-planar geometry on the liquid metal, its se...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:4
This paper describes a novel thread-shaped power generator which can be incorporated into cloth. A carbon-activated cotton thread is utilized for harvesting electrostatic energy from environment using contact ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:3
Quantum information processing (QIP) has become a hot research topic as evidenced by S. Haroche and D. J. Wineland receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012. Various MEMS-based microfabrication methods will...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:2
This review gives an overview of the development of surface acoustic wave (SAW) based gyroscopes. Different types of SAW based gyroscope are first presented, which are categorized into standing-wave based or p...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:1
Biophysical properties of living cells such as mechanical and chemical have been proven to play important roles in regulations of various biological activities including disease progression both at the cellula...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:8
Non-wetting super-hydrophobic or super-lyophobic surfaces are of great interest in a variety of applications. Natural water repelling surfaces show micro-/nano- combined hierarchical structure which shows extr...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:3
We firstly demonstrated the detection of anions in air using a nano field-effect transistor (nanoFET) device. Negative ions in air charged the top surface of the silicon nanoFET channel affecting the fieldeffe...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:7
We report a fabrication technique for dense, detailed lithographic patterning on high-aspect-ratio vertical sidewalls, and illustrate its use through the fabrication of etched array of micro-dimples on the sid...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:6
The resonant-frequency tuning of a self-aligned angular vertical comb-driven electrostatic microscanner is demonstrated by the electromechanical spring effect. The microscanner is fabricated on a silicon-on-in...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:4
This paper introduces a pneumatic dispensing system to control the velocity of nanoliter droplets with small variation of volume. The system consists of a flexible membrane integrated with a backflow stopper. ...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:5
An ultra-low voltage microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switch for low-power integrated circuit (IC) applications is proposed, fabricated and demonstrated. The folded hinge structure allows a large beam stru...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:2
This paper presents an electrochemical sensing approach that enables quantitative detection of three major catecholamine hormones from a mixture by specifically employing a chemically-modified microelectrode a...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:1
A piezoelectrically actuated corner cube retroreflector (CCR) has been investigated for free space optical communications. The proposed CCR consisted of two mutually orthogonal bulk-micromachined mirror assemb...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:7
Biomimetics is the study and simulation of biological systems for desired functional properties. It involves the transformation of underlying principles discovered in nature into man-made technologies. In this...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:6
We proposed a micro electrode fabrication method by a metal inkjet printing technology for the bio-applications of dielectrophoresis (DEP). The electrodes are composed of bottom planar gold (Au) electrodes and...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:5
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires were synthesised through two different methods; the vapour liquid solid (VLS) method and an aqueous solution method. Each method had its own set of parameters and changes in those pa...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:4
Wafer level adhesive bonding has been applied for the fabrication of micro systems which have heterogeneous components on LSI. Films or MEMS devices formed on a carrier wafer are transferred on a LSI wafer, wh...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:3
Existing models for thermoelastic damping consider geometric size effects only, the focus of this study is on tuning of thermoelastic damping with mechanical strain, which reduces both relaxation rate and ther...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:2
In this paper, a simple and robust model is presented to explain the main reason behind undercutting at convex corners and no-undercutting at concave corners. The etch rate of the tangent plane at convex corne...
Citation: Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:1
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