Page 3 of 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
