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Micromachines, Volume 13, Issue 5

May 2022 - 172 articles

Cover Story: With the recent advancements in microfabrication, researchers have revisited magnetorheological micropump designs. In this study, Rubayet et al. propose a magnetorheological micropump featuring a duckbill valve. The proposed design can pump 2.45 µL of fluid during the first second and minimizes the backflow by nearly 7.5 times compared to a model without a valve. The reported model could potentially be used in a broad range of applications, such as an insulin dosing system for type 1 diabetic patients, artificial organs to transport blood, organ-on-chip applications, and so on. View this paper
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Articles (172)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,209 Views
14 Pages

A Terahertz Optomechanical Detector Based on Metasurface and Bi-Material Micro-Cantilevers

  • Hailiang Zhu,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Ganyu Liu,
  • Gengchen Wang,
  • Jinchao Mou,
  • Weiwei Zhang and
  • Gao Wei

Terahertz imaging technology has shown great potential in many fields. As the core component of terahertz imaging systems, terahertz detectors have received extensive attention. In this paper, a metasurface-based terahertz optomechanical detector is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,147 Views
10 Pages

Gap Effect on Electric Field Enhancement and Photothermal Conversion in Gold Nanostructures

  • Hirotomo Chiba,
  • Kento Kodama,
  • Koki Okada,
  • Yoshiyasu Ichikawa and
  • Masahiro Motosuke

Plasmonic optical tweezers and thermophoresis are promising tools for nanomaterial manipulation. When a gold nanostructure is irradiated with laser light, an electric field around the nanostructure is enhanced because of the localized surface plasmon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,866 Views
7 Pages

We investigated the ellipsometer-based characterization method being used to quickly evaluate the depth of the damage layer in ion-implanted 4H-SiC. This method had the advantages of low cost, convenience, and non-destructiveness. Optical absorption...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,407 Views
9 Pages

Proteases play a critical role in regulating various physiological processes from protein digestion to wound healing. Monitoring the activity of proteases and screening their inhibitors as potential drug molecules are of great importance for the earl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,970 Views
12 Pages

Impact of the Semiconductor Defect Density on Solution-Processed Flexible Schottky Barrier Diodes

  • Julio C. Tinoco,
  • Samuel A. Hernandez,
  • María de la Luz Olvera,
  • Magali Estrada,
  • Rodolfo García and
  • Andrea G. Martinez-Lopez

Schottky barrier diodes, developed by low-cost techniques and low temperature processes (LTP-SBD), have gained attention for different kinds of novel applications, including flexible electronic fabrication. This work analyzes the behavior of the I&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,518 Views
11 Pages

Stop-Flow Lithography for the Continuous Production of Degradable Hydrogel Achiral Crescent Microswimmers

  • Junfeng Xiong,
  • Xiaoxia Song,
  • Yuhang Cai,
  • Jiahe Liu,
  • Yangyuan Li,
  • Yaqiang Ji,
  • Liang Guo and
  • U Kei Cheang

The small size of robotic microswimmers makes them suitable for performing biomedical tasks in tiny, enclosed spaces. Considering the effects of potentially long-term retention of microswimmers in biological tissues and the environment, the degradabi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,421 Views
12 Pages

Wireless Micro Soft Actuator without Payloads Using 3D Helical Coils

  • Seonghyeon Lee,
  • Woojun Jung,
  • Kyungho Ko and
  • Yongha Hwang

To receive a greater power and to demonstrate the soft bellows-shaped actuator’s wireless actuation, micro inductors were built for wireless power transfer and realized in a three-dimensional helical structure, which have previously been built in two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,910 Views
16 Pages

High-Efficiency Flicker-Free LED Driver with Soft-Switching Feature

  • Hung-Liang Cheng,
  • Lain-Chyr Hwang,
  • Heidi H. Chang,
  • Qi-You Wang and
  • Chun-An Cheng

A novel interleaved DC-DC buck converter is proposed to drive high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The circuit configuration mainly consists of two buck converters, which are connected in parallel and use interleaved operation. Through inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,808 Views
10 Pages

We report the design, fabrication and experimental validation of a THz all-dielectric multi-mode q-plate having a fixed rate of change of the optical axis. The device consists of space-variant birefringent slabs manufactured by 3D printing using melt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,319 Views
20 Pages

Single-Pixel Near-Infrared 3D Image Reconstruction in Outdoor Conditions

  • C. Osorio Quero,
  • D. Durini,
  • J. Rangel-Magdaleno,
  • J. Martinez-Carranza and
  • R. Ramos-Garcia

In the last decade, the vision systems have improved their capabilities to capture 3D images in bad weather scenarios. Currently, there exist several techniques for image acquisition in foggy or rainy scenarios that use infrared (IR) sensors. Due to...

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Micromachines - ISSN 2072-666X