Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:8
Published on: 15 October 2016
Letter
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 ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:7
Published on: 10 September 2016
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:6
Published on: 3 August 2016
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:5
Published on: 11 June 2016
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:4
Published on: 9 June 2016
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:3
Published on: 8 June 2016
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:2
Published on: 20 May 2016
Letter
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 ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:1
Published on: 3 February 2016
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:8
Published on: 12 October 2015
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:7
Published on: 11 August 2015
REVIEW
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:6
Published on: 27 May 2015
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:5
Published on: 20 May 2015
Letter
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 ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:3
Published on: 28 April 2015
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:4
Published on: 28 April 2015
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:2
Published on: 23 April 2015
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2015 3:1
Published on: 25 February 2015
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:8
Published on: 22 October 2014
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:3
Published on: 3 September 2014
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:7
Published on: 15 August 2014
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:6
Published on: 15 August 2014
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:4
Published on: 17 July 2014
Letter
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. ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:5
Published on: 12 July 2014
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:2
Published on: 17 June 2014
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2014 2:1
Published on: 7 June 2014
Letter
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2013 1:7
Published on: 18 December 2013
