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This letter reports two novel electrode design considerations to satisfy two very important aspects of EWOD operation—(1) Highly consistent volume of generated droplets and (2) Highly improved accuracy in the gen...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:24
Published on: 16 June 2017
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Anisotropic wet etching is a most widely employed for the fabrication of MEMS/NEMS structures using silicon bulk micromachining. The use of Si{110} in MEMS is inevitable when a microstructure with vertical sid...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:23
Published on: 26 May 2017
Review
Cardiovascular disease is a very serious disease which results in about 30% of all global mortality. Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes rapid and irregular contractions resulting in stroke and cardiac arrest. AF ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:22
Published on: 16 May 2017
Letter
We present a facile method for the preparation of polyethyleneglycol diacrylate (PEG-DA) hydrogels with plasmonic gold (Au) nanospheres incorporated for various biological and chemical sensing applications. Pl...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:21
Published on: 27 April 2017
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This paper presents a micro-fabricated flexible and curled PZT [Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3] cantilever using d33 piezoelectric mode for vibration based energy harvesting applications. The proposed cantilever based energy...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:20
Published on: 4 April 2017
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Despite many efforts to create nanogratings to exploit exceptionally enhanced nano-sized effects, realizing sub-10 nm nanogratings on a large area still remains a great challenge. Herein, we demonstrate fabric...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:19
Published on: 24 March 2017
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We present a simple and scalable fluidic-assembly approach, in which bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are selectively aligned and deposited by directionally controlled dip-coating and solvent...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:18
Published on: 20 March 2017
Erratum
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:17
Published on: 7 March 2017
The original article was published in Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:6
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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 ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:16
Published on: 2 March 2017
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:15
Published on: 1 March 2017
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:14
Published on: 28 February 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:13
Published on: 22 February 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:12
Published on: 8 February 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:11
Published on: 1 February 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:10
Published on: 27 January 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:9
Published on: 24 January 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:8
Published on: 11 January 2017
Letter
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 ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:7
Published on: 10 January 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:4
Published on: 9 January 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:6
Published on: 9 January 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:17
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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 ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:5
Published on: 9 January 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:3
Published on: 7 January 2017
Letter
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. ...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:2
Published on: 5 January 2017
Review
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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2017 5:1
Published on: 2 January 2017
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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...
Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2016 4:9
Published on: 24 October 2016
