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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Miko Elwenspoek
1 Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Abert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstraße 19, D-79104 Freiburg i.Br., Germany
2 MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, PO box 217, NL 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. D: +49 761 203 97342; NL: +31 534 893 845; Fax: D: +49 761 203 97451; NL: +31 534 893 343
Website: http://tst.ewi.utwente.nl/
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Contribution: Special Issue: Self-Assembly

Assistant Editor
Mr. Dietrich Rordorf
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 35; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Dean M. Aslam
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2120 EB, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Tel. +1 517 353 6329; Fax: +1 517 353 1980
Website: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~aslam/
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Interests: neural studies using microprobes; biochemical nanosensors; polycrystalline diamond (poly-C) sensors and MEMS (Bio; RF; Packaging); hands-on Lego-robotics modules for K-12; UG and graduate teaching
Contribution: Special Issue: Technology and Applications of Carbon-Based MEMS

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benecke
Fraunhofer Institut für Siliziumtechnologie ISIT, Fraunhoferstraße 1, D-25524 Itzehoe, Germany
Fax: +49 (0) 48 21 17 4210
Website: http://www.isit.fhg.de
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Interests: MEMS; NEMS; microsystem technology; sensors; actuators; process technology; commercialization of MEMS/NEMS

Dr. Felix Beyeler
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland; FemtoTools GmbH, Tannenstrasse 3, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 02 78; Fax: +41 44 632 10 78
Website: http://www.femtotools.com
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Interests: MEMS force sensing; MEMS grippers; microhandling and microassembly, mechanical characterization of microsystems, biomaterial characterization

Prof. Dr. Victor M. Bright
College of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, ECME 208, 427 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0427, USA
Tel. +1 303 735-1734; Fax: +1 303 492-3498
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/MCEN/people/faculty/bright.html
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Interests: micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS); silicon micromachining; microsensors; microactuators; opto-electronics; optical, magnetic and RF microsystems; atomic-layer deposited materials; ceramic MEMS; MEMS reliability; MEMS packaging

Prof. Dr. Glenn H. Chapman
School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Tel. +1-778-782-3814; Fax: +1-778-782-4951
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Dr. Bernard Courtois
Circuits Multi-Projets, 46 Avenue Félix, Viallet, 38031 Grenoble Cedex, France
Tel. +33 476 574 615
Website: http://cmp.imag.fr/contacts/bio3.php
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Interests: MEMS; infrastructures; education; CAD; test; modeling; libraries; fault modeling; thermal; 3D integration; electronics for MEMS; reliability

Prof. Dr. Nicolaas F. de Rooij
Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory (SAMLAB), Institute of Microtechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 32 720 5303; Fax: +41 32 720 5711
Website: http://people.epfl.ch/nico.derooij
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Interests: design, micro fabrication and application of miniaturized silicon based sensors, actuators, and microsystems

Prof. Dr. Marc Desmulliez
Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, MIcrosystems Engineering Centre (MISEC), Heriot-Watt University, MIcroSystems Engineering Centre, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Earl Mountbatten Building, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK
Tel. +44 (0)131 451 3340; Fax: +44 (0)131 451 4155
Website: http://misec.eps.hw.ac.uk/welcome.htm
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Interests: microengineering; microsystems technology advanced assembly and packaging 3D manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Stefan Dimov
Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 29 2087 4429; Fax: +44 (0) 29 2087 4003
Website: http://www.mec.cf.ac.uk
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Interests: micro manufacturing; micro machining; micro replication; micro milling; micro EDM; micro injection moulding; NIL; laser ablation

Prof. Dr. Gary K. Fedder
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
Tel. +1 412 268 8443; Fax: +1 412 268 5229
Website: http://www.ices.cmu.edu/
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Interests: integration of MEMS and electronics; MEMS modeling and design methodologies; microsensors; microactuators

Prof. Dr. Joseph Ford
University of California San Diego, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0407, USA
Tel. +1 858 534 7891; Fax: +1 858 534 1225
Website: http://psilab.ucsd.edu
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Interests: optical MEMS; micro-imaging; telecommunications; free-space optical communications; remote optical sensing; concentrated photo voltaics

Dr. Luc Fréchette
Département de génie mécanique, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boul. Université Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada
Tel. +1 819 821 8000; Fax: +1 819 821 7163
Website: http://www.eureka.gme.usherb.ca/memslab/MEMSLab_f/
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Contribution: Special Issue: Energy Harvesting

Dr. Michael Gaitan
Enabling Devices Group, Semiconductor Electronics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Tel. +1 301 975 2070
Website: http://www.nist.gov/
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Interests: CMOS foundry MEMS; microrobotics; microfluidics; microheating elements; nanoparticle synthesis; metrology and standardization

Dr. Vishwanath Hegadekatte
Mathematical Modeling Novelis Technology (India), Taloja R&D Center, Hindalco Industries Ltd., Plot No. 2, MIDC Taloja Navi, 410208 Mumbai, India
Tel. +91 22 66292260
Website: http://vishwanath.hegadekatte.googlepages.com
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Interests: micromachines; NEMS; reliability; tribology, computational solid mechanics

Dr. Kazunori Hoshino
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road, J.J. Pickle Research Campus MER160, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Tel. +1 512 232 4279; Fax: +1 512 232 4275
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Interests: MEMS; nanophotonics; MEMS-based optical microscopy; organic and inorganic light emitting devices

Prof. Dr. Sang-Gook Kim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Room 1-310, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tel. +1 617 452 2472; Fax: +1 617 258 8742
Website: http://mit.edu/micronanosystems/www/
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Interests: nanomanufacturing; carbon nanotube growth and assembly; PZT MEMS; energy harvesting; non-lithographic MEMS
Contribution: Section: Physical Sensors

Prof. Dr. Dong-Joo Kim
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Tel. +1 334 844 4864; Fax: +1 334 844 4864
Website: http://www.auburn.edu/~kimdon2/
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Interests: MEMS; piezoelectric; magnetostrictive; sensors; actuators; nanofabrication

Prof. Dr. Walter Lang
IMSAS Institute for Microsensors, -actuators and –systems, Postfach 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
Tel. +49 421 218 4701; Fax: +49 421 218 4701
Website: www.imsas.uni-bremen.de
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Interests: sensors; microfluidic systems; sensor networks for logistic applications

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linert
Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163-AC, A-1060 Wien, Austria
Tel. +43 1 58801 15350; Fax: +43 1 58801 16299
Website: http://www.ias.tuwien.ac.at/researchacwl_e.html
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Interests: thermal and optical spin-state transitions; molecular magnets; isokinetic relationships; compensation effect; material science

Dr. Brent Nelson
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, P. O. Box 15600, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
Tel. +1 928 523 0862; Fax: +1 928 523 2300
Website: http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/ME/faculty/BrentNelson.shtml
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Interests: biomaterials; protein mechanics; microsensors; atomic force microscopy

Prof. Dr. Nam-Trung Nguyen
Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore
Tel. +65 6790 4457; Fax: +65 6791 1859
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Interests: development of micro technology; transport effects in microscale; microdevices; lab on a chip; diagnostic techniques
Contribution: Special Issue: Micromixers

Dr. Aaron T. Ohta
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 483, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Tel. +1 808 956 8196; Fax: +1 808 956 3427
Website: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/
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Interests: MEMS/NEMS; bioMEMS/NEMS; microfluidics; optofluidics

Dr. Roy H. Olson III
Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, MS 1069, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Tel. +1 505 284 6375; Fax: +1 505 844 2991
Website: http://www.sandia.gov/
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Interests: microsystems, microresonators; phononic crystals; RF MEMS: piezoelectric MEMS; inertial sensors

Prof. Dr. Duc Truong Pham
Professor and Director Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 29 2087 4429; Fax: +44 (0) 29 2087 4003
Website: http://www.mec.cf.ac.uk
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Interests: micro manufacturing; control systems; robotics; intelligent systems

Dr. Maurizio Porfiri
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Six MetroTech Center, Office: 504-A Rogers Hall, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
Tel. +1 718 260 3681; Fax: +1 718 260 3532
Website: http://faculty.poly.edu/~mporfiri/index.htm
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Interests: MEMS; sensors; actuators; composites; modeling; control systems; nonlinear dynamics

Dr. Emmanuel Quevy
CTO, Silicon Clocks Inc., 39141 Civic Center Drive, Suite 450, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel. +1 510 742 5625 #106; Fax: +1 510 742 9176
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Interests: MEMS design; fabrication and characterization RF analog circuit design / semiconductor processing

Prof. Dr. Phillipe Renaud
EPFL-STI-IMT-LMIS, BM-Station 17, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 67 97; Fax: +41 21 693 59 50
Website: http://lmis4.epfl.ch/page25539.html
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Interests: bioMEMS; microfluidics; cell chips; bioelectronics; biosensors

Prof. Dr. Dominiek Reynaerts
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Afdeling PMA, Celestijnenlaan 300b - bus 02420, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
Tel. +32 163 226 40; Fax: +32 163 229 87
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Contribution: Special Issue: Micro-positioning

Prof. Dr. Jin-Koo Rhee
Millimeter-Wave Innovation Technology (MINT) Research Center, Department of Electronics Engineering, Dongguk University, 26 Pil-dong 3-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea
Tel. +82 2 2260 3335 or 8830; Fax: +82 2 2277 4796
Website: http://mint.dongguk.ac.kr/
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Interests: research and development of semiconductor nano devices for microwaves and millimeter-waves; research and development of MMIC's (microwave monolithic integrated circuits) by 3-D MEMs; research and development of MIMIC's (millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits)

Prof. Dr. Robert F. Richards
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, PO Box 642920, Pullman, WA 99164-2920, USA
Tel. +1 509 335 8157; Fax: +1 509 335 4662
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Interests: MEMS; actuators; sensors; energy conversion; micropower; heat and mass transfer

Prof. Dr. Paul D. Ronney
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Room OHE 430J, Viterbi School of Engineering, 3650 McClintock Ave., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453, USA
Tel. +1 213 740 0490; Fax: +1 213 740 8071
Website: http://ronney.usc.edu
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Interests: power MEMS; heat transfer; combustion; catalysis; solid oxide fuel cells; microbial fuel cells; PEM fuel cells

Dr. Janak Singh
Industrial Development Manager (NanoElectronics & Photonics, MEMS), Institute of Microelectronics Singapore, 11 Science Park Road, Singapore Science Park II, 117685, Singapore
Tel. +65 67705909; Fax: +65 67731914
Website: http://www.ime.a-star.edu.sg/
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Interests: MEMS; MOEMS; bioMEMS; microPCR; microCE; micromirror; actuators; MEMS FEA simulations; motion sensing in bio medical applications; MEMS optical probe; OCT imaging using MEMS optical probe

Dr. Tauno Vähä-Heikkilä
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, PO Box 1000, 02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland
Tel. +358 40 758 7941
Website: http://www.vtt.fi/
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Interests: RF MEMS; MEMS; microsystems; RF MEMS packaging

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