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Micromachines, Volume 15, Issue 7

July 2024 - 126 articles

Cover Story: This cover image captures a person who is equipped with wearable energy harvesting technologies to power sensors and electronics. This review article highlights the recent progress, potential, and technological challenges in energy harvesting technology and accompanying technologies to construct a practical powering module, including power management and energy storage devices for wearable device developments. View this paper
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Articles (126)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,288 Views
15 Pages

19 July 2024

Micro-pyramid copper molds are critical components in the preparation of high-precision optical elements, such as light-trapping films and reflective films. Their surfaces are composed of micro-pyramid arrays (MPAs). The surface roughness and edge bu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,766 Views
12 Pages

A Flexible Temperature Sensor Integrated at Needle Tip for In Situ Acupoint Temperature Monitoring

  • Ci Song,
  • Zheng Yu,
  • Weiwen Feng,
  • Ke Sun,
  • Chuanbiao Wen,
  • Shengyan Zhang,
  • Shuguang Yu and
  • Xinxin Li

19 July 2024

Temperature can reflect vital activities, and researchers have attempted to guide Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment by observing acupoint temperature changes. Integrating a temperature sensor at the needle tip enables in situ acupoint temperat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,323 Views
15 Pages

The Stamping Method Utilizing a Double-Trough Die in Microforming to Enhance Formability

  • Ming-Hung Hsu,
  • Kuo-Ming Huang,
  • Chuan-Hsaing Chang and
  • Chung-Ping Liu

18 July 2024

Currently, the field of microgear manufacturing faces various processing challenges, particularly in terms of size reduction; these challenges increase the complexity and costs of manufacturing. In this study, a technique for microgear manufacturing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,600 Views
27 Pages

17 July 2024

Thin-film electrode arrays (TFEAs) have been developed as an alternative to conventional electrode arrays (CEAs) used in cochlear implants. However, TFEAs produced by microfabrication techniques have not yet been used clinically because their structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,823 Views
13 Pages

Conformal 3D Printing Algorithm for Surfaces and Its In Situ Repair Applications

  • Jundong Tang,
  • Yongli Dong,
  • Lixiang Cai,
  • Qian Zhu and
  • Jianping Shi

17 July 2024

Conformal 3D printing can construct specific three-dimensional structures on the free-form surfaces of target objects, achieving in situ additive manufacturing and repair, making it one of the cutting-edge technologies in the current field of 3D prin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,954 Views
15 Pages

16 July 2024

The morphology size of laser cladding is a crucial parameter that significantly impacts the quality and performance of the cladding layer. This study proposes a predictive model for the cladding morphology size based on the Least Squares Support Vect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,765 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2024

This paper presents a gesture-controlled robotic arm system designed for agricultural harvesting, utilizing a data glove equipped with bending sensors and OptiTrack systems. The system aims to address the challenges of labor-intensive fruit harvestin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,891 Views
15 Pages

16 July 2024

Piezoelectric composites, which consist of piezoelectric materials and polymers, are widely employed in various applications such as underwater sonar transducers and medical diagnostic ultrasonic transducers. Acoustic transducers based on piezoelectr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,647 Views
8 Pages

Design of X-Band Circulator and Isolator for High-Peak-Power Applications

  • Tao Tang,
  • Xiexun Zhang,
  • Maged A. Aldhaeebi and
  • Thamer S. Almoneef

16 July 2024

This paper presents a design of a X-band circulator–isolator for handling high-peak-power applications. The device consists of two cascade-connected ferrite circulators, with one dedicated to transmission and the other to small-signal reception...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,749 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2024

Two-dimensional ultrasonic-assisted grinding (2D-UAG) has exhibited advantages in improving the machining quality of hard and brittle materials. However, the grinding mechanism in this process has not been thoroughly revealed due to the complicated m...

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