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Micromachines, Volume 16, Issue 2

February 2025 - 129 articles

Cover Story: Intracortical microelectrode arrays (MEAs) are essential for recording neural signals, with them offering insights into both healthy and diseased states. However, their reliability for long-term recording is limited by the foreign body response (FBR), including gliosis and neuronal loss near implant sites. Using amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC) MEAs with reduced cross-sectional areas, which enhances flexibility while maintaining implantation stiffness, we compared the performance of a-SiC MEAs to conventional silicon-based probes over a period of 16 weeks in the rat motor cortex. Our results demonstrate that a-SiC MEAs exhibit superior chronic recording performance, mitigate the FBR, and achieve higher active electrode yields. Our findings highlight the potential of a-SiC technology for stable, long-term neural interfaces, advancing applications in neuroprosthetics and neuromodulation. View this paper
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Articles (129)

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  • Open Access
1,235 Views
21 Pages

Study on Spatiotemporal Variation in Internal Temperature Field in Quartz Flexible Accelerometer

  • Zhigang Zhang,
  • Fangxiang Tang,
  • Ziwei Zhao,
  • Zhao Zhang and
  • Lijun Tang

19 February 2025

Quartz flexible accelerometers (QFAs) are a type of temperature-sensitive sensor, whereby a change in temperature will cause the key parameters of the accelerometer to drift and cause stability errors. Due to the absence of effective methods for sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,107 Views
20 Pages

Coded Ultrasonic Ranging for the Distance Measurement of Coaxial Rotor Blades

  • Yaohuan Lu,
  • Zhen Qiu,
  • Shan Zhang,
  • Wenchuan Hu,
  • Yongqiang Qiu and
  • Zurong Qiu

19 February 2025

Coaxial rotor helicopters have a wide range of civilian and military applications; however, the collision risk of the upper and lower blades that comes with the coaxial rotor system remains. This paper introduces a blade-tip distance measurement meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,519 Views
14 Pages

19 February 2025

High-quality traveling waves in stators are critical for traveling-wave ultrasonic motors (TUSMs) to achieve good stability and efficiency. However, the modal splitting and shape distortion that is induced by the anisotropic elasticity induce severe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,560 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2025

All-optical computing is an emerging information processing technology. As a cutting-edge technology in the field of photonics, it effectively leverages the unique advantages of photons to achieve rapid computation. However, the lack of a fully funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,855 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2025

A versatile and modular microfluidic system for cell co-culture has been developed. Microfluidic chips, each featuring dual compartments separated by a porous membrane, have been fabricated and assembled within the system to facilitate fluidic interc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,765 Views
17 Pages

Dielectrophoretic Microfluidic Designs for Precision Cell Enrichments and Highly Viable Label-Free Bacteria Recovery from Blood

  • Dean E. Thomas,
  • Kyle S. Kinskie,
  • Kyle M. Brown,
  • Lisa A. Flanagan,
  • Rafael V. Davalos and
  • Alexandra R. Hyler

19 February 2025

Conducting detailed cellular analysis of complex biological samples poses challenges in cell sorting and recovery for downstream analysis. Label-free microfluidics provide a promising solution for these complex applications. In this work, we investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,306 Views
13 Pages

An Optimized PZT-FBG Voltage/Temperature Sensor

  • Shangpeng Sun,
  • Feiyue Ma,
  • Yanxiao He,
  • Bo Niu,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Longcheng Dai and
  • Zhongyang Zhao

19 February 2025

The piezoelectric grating voltage sensor has garnered significant attention in the realm of intelligent sensing, attributed to its compact size, cost-effectiveness, robust electromagnetic interference (EMI) immunity, and high network integration capa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,546 Views
11 Pages

19 February 2025

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, and its early detection can be critical for a prompt intervention that can potentially slow down the disease progression and improve the patient’s quality of life. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,228 Views
23 Pages

18 February 2025

The development of electrochemical DNA biosensors occurred by applying different organically coated Mn-NPs such as MnCO3@OAm, MnCO3@TEG and MnO2/Mn2O3@TEG, as well as naked MnCO3 NPs (where OAm = oleylamine and TEG = tetraethylene glycol). The detect...

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