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Micromachines, Volume 15, Issue 4

April 2024 - 134 articles

Cover Story: Implantable biodegradable biosensors represent a breakthrough in personalized healthcare, offering advanced insights into bodily functions and disease management. These devices hold promise for revolutionizing precision medicine. However, their transition to clinical use faces challenges such as biodegradability, biofouling, power management, and data security. This review discusses the latest developments, materials, and applications of implantable biosensors alongside the significant hurdles in their clinical implementations. View this paper
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Articles (134)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,033 Views
13 Pages

A Five-Hole Pressure Probe Based on Integrated MEMS Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Sensors

  • Yumiao Song,
  • Shuanghui Ma,
  • Jichun Zhao,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Jingyi Wang and
  • Yongjun Cui

22 April 2024

The five-hole pressure probe based on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology is designed to meet the needs of engine inlet pressure measurement. The probe, including a pressure-sensitive detection unit and a five-hole probe encapsulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,052 Views
34 Pages

Robust Orientation Estimation from MEMS Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravity (MARG) Modules for Human–Computer Interaction

  • Pontakorn Sonchan,
  • Neeranut Ratchatanantakit,
  • Nonnarit O-Larnnithipong,
  • Malek Adjouadi and
  • Armando Barreto

21 April 2024

While the availability of low-cost micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers initially seemed to promise the possibility of using them to easily track the position and orientation of virtually any object th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,232 Views
27 Pages

Secure ECDSA SRAM-PUF Based on Universal Single/Double Scalar Multiplication Architecture

  • Jingqi Zhang,
  • Zhiming Chen,
  • Xiang He,
  • Kuanhao Liu,
  • Yue Hao,
  • Mingzhi Ma,
  • Weijiang Wang,
  • Hua Dang and
  • Xiangnan Li

21 April 2024

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are crucial for enhancing cybersecurity by providing unique, intrinsic identifiers for electronic devices, thus ensuring their authenticity and preventing unauthorized cloning. The SRAM-PUF, characterized by its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,373 Views
14 Pages

Enhancing Thickness Uniformity of Nb2O5/SiO2 Multilayers Using Shadow Masks for Flexible Color-Filtering Applications

  • Tzu-Chien Li,
  • Dong-Lin Li,
  • Jiashow Ho,
  • Chih-Chiang Yu,
  • Sheng-Shih Wang and
  • Jyh-Jier Ho

21 April 2024

Using a stainless shadow mask combined with a magnetron-ion-assisted deposition (IAD) sputtering system, we investigate the surface morphologies and optical properties of microfilms. Optimal color-filter (CF) coating microfilms with niobium pent-oxid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,362 Views
16 Pages

20 April 2024

When pipe defects are generated above the T-type support structure location, it is difficult to distinguish the reflection signals caused by the weld bead at the support structure from the reflection echoes of pipe defects. Therefore, in order to eff...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,865 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2024

As a planarization technique, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) continues to suffer from pattern effects that result in large variations in material thickness, which can influence circuit performance and yield. Therefore, tools for predicting post-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,827 Views
13 Pages

Research on Vibration Accumulation Self-Powered Downhole Sensor Based on Triboelectric Nanogenerators

  • Rui Wang,
  • Jianchao Ren,
  • Weibo Ding,
  • Maofu Liu,
  • Guangzhi Pan and
  • Chuan Wu

19 April 2024

In drilling operations, measuring vibration parameters is crucial for enhancing drilling efficiency and ensuring safety. Nevertheless, the conventional vibration measurement sensor significantly extends the drilling cycle due to its dependence on an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,518 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2024

Laser-processing technology has been widely used in the ultra-precision machining of diamond materials. It has the advantages of high precision and high efficiency, especially in the field of super-hard materials and high-precision parts manufacturin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,350 Views
12 Pages

18 April 2024

This paper presents an ultra-wideband transformer feedback (TFB) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power amplifier (PA) developed using a 0.25 μm gallium nitride (GaN) process. To broaden the bandwidth, a drain-to-gate TFB technique i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,693 Views
21 Pages

Resistance Feedback of a Ni-Ti Alloy Actuator at Room Temperature in Still Air

  • Francesco Durante,
  • Terenziano Raparelli and
  • Pierluigi Beomonte Zobel

18 April 2024

This paper illustrates an experimental activity for the closed-loop position control of an actuator made using shape memory alloy (SMA) wire. A solution with the self-sensing effect was implemented to miniaturize the systems, i.e., without external s...

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