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Micromachines, Volume 6, Issue 6

2015 June - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
116 Citations
10,860 Views
20 Pages

23 June 2015

Providing an accurate and practical navigation solution anywhere with portable devices, such as smartphones, is still a challenge, especially in environments where global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) signals are not available or are degraded....

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,658 Views
12 Pages

19 June 2015

A quantitative description of the dynamics of droplet motion has been a long-standing concern in electrowetting research. Although many static and dynamic models focusing on droplet motion induced by electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) already exist...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,920 Views
3 Pages

Special Issue: 15 Years of SU8 as MEMS Material

  • Arnaud Bertsch and
  • Philippe Renaud

19 June 2015

In 1997, the first paper using SU-8 as a material for microfabrication was published [1], demonstrating the interest of this negative photoresist for the near-UV structuration of thick layers and the manufacturing of high aspect-ratio components.[...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,727 Views
13 Pages

17 June 2015

A numerical study was performed for a T-shaped microchannel to enhance mixing performance through a baffle configuration. The mixing performance was analyzed in terms of the DOM (degree of mixing) and the pressure load between the two inlets and outl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,593 Views
29 Pages

16 June 2015

Every year forest fires cause severe financial losses in many countries of the world. Additionally, lives of humans as well as of countless animals are often lost. Due to global warming, the problem of wildfires is getting out of control; hence, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
9,263 Views
18 Pages

WiFi-Aided Magnetic Matching for Indoor Navigation with Consumer Portable Devices

  • You Li,
  • Yuan Zhuang,
  • Haiyu Lan,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Xiaoji Niu and
  • Naser El-Sheimy

16 June 2015

This paper presents a WiFi-aided magnetic matching (MM) algorithm for indoor pedestrian navigation with consumer portable devices. This algorithm reduces both the mismatching rate (i.e., the rate of matching to an incorrect point that is more than 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,603 Views
19 Pages

Reciprocal Estimation of Pedestrian Location and Motion State toward a Smartphone Geo-Context Computing Solution

  • Jingbin Liu,
  • Lingli Zhu,
  • Yunsheng Wang,
  • Xinlian Liang,
  • Juha Hyyppä,
  • Tianxing Chu,
  • Keqiang Liu and
  • Ruizhi Chen

15 June 2015

The rapid advance in mobile communications has made information and services ubiquitously accessible. Location and context information have become essential for the effectiveness of services in the era of mobility. This paper proposes the concept of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,419 Views
15 Pages

12 June 2015

A signal processing technique is presented to improve the angular rate accuracy of Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) gyroscope by combining numerous gyroscopes. Based on the conditional correlation between gyroscopes, a dynamic data fusion model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,930 Views
10 Pages

Rotational Efficiency of Photo-Driven Archimedes Screws for Micropumps

  • Chih-Lang Lin,
  • Yu-Sheng Lin and
  • Patrice L. Baldeck

9 June 2015

In this study, we characterized the rotational efficiency of the photo-driven Archimedes screw. The micron-sized Archimedes screws were fabricated using the two-photon polymerization technique. Free-floating screws trapped by optical tweezers align...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,116 Views
14 Pages

On-Chip Method to Measure Mechanical Characteristics of a Single Cell by Using Moiré Fringe

  • Hirotaka Sugiura,
  • Shinya Sakuma,
  • Makoto Kaneko and
  • Fumihito Arai

3 June 2015

We propose a method to characterize the mechanical properties of cells using a robot-integrated microfluidic chip (robochip) and microscopy. The microfluidic chip is designed to apply the specified deformations to a single detached cell using an on-c...

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