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Micromachines, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2019 - 65 articles

Cover Story: Colon disease is seriously harmful to human health, and “early diagnosis and early treatment” is an effective strategy to lower its incidence rate. A tether-less capsule robot that can be introduced from the anus and can explore the colon in a non-invasive manner is a promising device to implement this strategy. However, the nonstructural colon environment can seriously lower the movement performance of the capsule robot, and a commercially available button cell is unable to power the capsule robot for a long duration. Therefore, the question of how to improve movement performance and how to supply sufficient electric power have become the hot topics in the field of capsule robots. View this paper
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Articles (65)

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,175 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2019

To improve the drag-reducing and antifouling performance of marine equipment, it is indispensable to learn from structures and materials that are found in nature. This is due to their excellent properties, such as intelligence, microminiaturization,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,472 Views
9 Pages

23 July 2019

Hydrogen is one of the most important clean energy sources of the future. Because of its flammability, explosiveness, and flammability, it is important to develop a highly sensitive hydrogen sensor. Among many gas sensing materials, zinc oxide has ex...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,689 Views
14 Pages

Real Time Electronic Feedback for Improved Acoustic Trapping of Micron-Scale Particles

  • Charles P. Clark,
  • Vahid Farmehini,
  • Liam Spiers,
  • M. Shane Woolf,
  • Nathan S. Swami and
  • James P. Landers

21 July 2019

Acoustic differential extraction has been previously reported as a viable alternative to the repetitive manual pipetting and centrifugation steps for isolating sperm cells from female epithelial cells in sexual assault sample evidence. However, the e...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,641 Views
17 Pages

Micro Vacuum Chuck and Tensile Test System for Bio-Mechanical Evaluation of 3D Tissue Constructed of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes (hiPS-CM)

  • Kaoru Uesugi,
  • Fumiaki Shima,
  • Ken Fukumoto,
  • Ayami Hiura,
  • Yoshinari Tsukamoto,
  • Shigeru Miyagawa,
  • Yoshiki Sawa,
  • Takami Akagi,
  • Mitsuru Akashi and
  • Keisuke Morishima

19 July 2019

In this report, we propose a micro vacuum chuck (MVC) which can connect three-dimensional (3D) tissues to a tensile test system by vacuum pressure. Because the MVC fixes the 3D tissue by vacuum pressure generated on multiple vacuum holes, it is expec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,530 Views
13 Pages

19 July 2019

Chemosensory protein based olfactory biosensors are expected to play a significant role in next-generation volatile organic compound (VOC) detection systems due to their ultra-high sensitivity and selectivity. As these biosensors can perform most eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,500 Views
13 Pages

19 July 2019

Highly localized (point) constrictions featuring a round geometry with ultra-sharp edges in silicon have been demonstrated for the reagent-free continuous-flow rapid mechanical lysis of mammalian cells on a single-cell basis. Silicon point constricti...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,225 Views
8 Pages

Silicon Optical Modulator Using a Low-Loss Phase Shifter Based on a Multimode Interference Waveguide

  • Daisuke Inoue,
  • Tadashi Ichikawa,
  • Akari Kawasaki and
  • Tatsuya Yamashita

18 July 2019

We have developed a novel phase modulator, based on fin-type electrodes placed at self-imaging positions of a silicon multimode interference (MMI) waveguide, which allows reduced scattering losses and relaxes the fabrication tolerance. The measured p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,444 Views
34 Pages

18 July 2019

Most of the microfluidics-related literature describes devices handling liquids, with only a small part dealing with gas-based applications, and a much smaller number of papers are devoted to the separation and/or detection of airborne inorganic part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,424 Views
21 Pages

A New Approach to Decoupled Non-Resonant Polishing

  • Yucheng Li,
  • Xiaoqin Zhou,
  • Guilian Wang,
  • Peiqun Ma and
  • Rongqi Wang

18 July 2019

Two-dimensional vibration-assisted polishing (2D-VAP) is a new polishing approach proposed in recent years, which is considered to be very suitable for the polishing of micro-optical parts and micro-structured surfaces. The advantages of the 2D-VAP a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,701 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of 1200 V SiC MOSFETs’ Surge Reliability

  • Huan Li,
  • Jue Wang,
  • Na Ren,
  • Hongyi Xu and
  • Kuang Sheng

18 July 2019

In this work, the surge reliability of 1200 V SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from various manufactures has been investigated in the reverse conduction mode. The surge current tests have been carried out in the channe...

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