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Micromachines, Volume 6, Issue 9

2015 September - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,886 Views
15 Pages

OLED Hybrid Integrated Polymer Microfluidic Biosensing for Point of Care Testing

  • Ashwin Acharya,
  • Muthukumaran Packirisamy and
  • Ricardo Izquierdo

22 September 2015

This paper reports a microfluidic platform with external hybrid integration of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) as an excitation source. This device can be used as a simple and cost effective biosensing element. The device is capable of rapid i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,907 Views
22 Pages

21 September 2015

Mechanical testing of materials at the microscales is challenging. It requires delicate procedures not only for producing and handling the specimen to be tested, but also for applying an accurate and controlled force. This endeavor is even more chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,766 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2015

A method incorporating the optically induced electrorotation (OER) and alternating current electroosmotic (ACEO) effects, for the formation and motion control of microparticle chains, is numerically and experimentally demonstrated. In this method, bo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
219 Citations
24,261 Views
19 Pages

Magnetic Actuation Based Motion Control for Microrobots: An Overview

  • Tiantian Xu,
  • Jiangfan Yu,
  • Xiaohui Yan,
  • Hongsoo Choi and
  • Li Zhang

15 September 2015

Untethered, controllable, mobile microrobots have been proposed for numerous applications, ranging from micro-manipulation, in vitro tasks (e.g., operation of microscale biological substances) to in vivo applications (e.g., targeted drug delivery; br...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,540 Views
15 Pages

Microfluidic Induced Controllable Microdroplets Assembly in Confined Channels

  • Juan Wang,
  • Mingliang Jin,
  • Tao He,
  • Guofu Zhou and
  • Lingling Shui

10 September 2015

We report on the microfluidic induced monodispersed microdroplet generation and assembly in confined microchannels. Two and three dimensional close-packed droplet lattices were obtained in microfluidic devices by adjusting the channel geometry, the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,879 Views
11 Pages

A Novel Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator for Filters and Sensors Applications

  • Zhixin Zhang,
  • Ji Liang,
  • Daihua Zhang,
  • Wei Pang and
  • Hao Zhang

8 September 2015

Bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators are widely applied in filters and gravimetric sensors for physical or biochemical sensing. In this work, a new architecture of BAW resonator is demonstrated, which introduces a pair of reflection layers onto the to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,927 Views
14 Pages

Fabrication of SWCNT-Graphene Field-Effect Transistors

  • Shuangxi Xie,
  • Niandong Jiao,
  • Steve Tung and
  • Lianqing Liu

8 September 2015

Graphene and single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) have been widely studied because of their extraordinary electrical, thermal, mechanical, and optical properties. This paper describes a novel and flexible method to fabricate all-carbon field-effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,399 Views
17 Pages

7 September 2015

Portable sensors and biomedical devices are influenced by the recent advances in microfluidics technologies, compact fabrication techniques, improved detection limits and enhanced analysis capabilities. This paper reports the development of an integr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,995 Views
17 Pages

Characteristic Evaluation of a Shrouded Propeller Mechanism for a Magnetic Actuated Microrobot

  • Qiang Fu,
  • Shuxiang Guo,
  • Songyuan Zhang,
  • Hideyuki Hirata and
  • Hidenori Ishihara

3 September 2015

Medical microrobots have been widely used in clinical applications, particularly the spiral type locomotion mechanism, which was recently considered one of the main self-propelling mechanisms for the next medical microrobot to perform tasks such as c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
170 Citations
18,896 Views
23 Pages

Recent Advances in Applications of Droplet Microfluidics

  • Wei-Lung Chou,
  • Pee-Yew Lee,
  • Cing-Long Yang,
  • Wen-Ying Huang and
  • Yung-Sheng Lin

2 September 2015

Droplet-based microfluidics is a colloidal and interfacial system that has rapidly progressed in the past decade because of the advantages of low fabrication costs, small sample volumes, reduced analysis durations, high-throughput analysis with excep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
13,981 Views
13 Pages

Research on the Piezoelectric Properties of AlN Thin Films for MEMS Applications

  • Meng Zhang,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Chaowei Si,
  • Guowei Han,
  • Yongmei Zhao and
  • Jin Ning

1 September 2015

In this paper, the piezoelectric coefficient d33 of AlN thin films for MEMS applications was studied by the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) measurement and finite element method (FEM) simulation. Both the sample without a top electrode and anoth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,564 Views
23 Pages

26 August 2015

In this work, we investigate the interaction of a nanoparticulate system for nanomedicine applications with the biological environment, i.e., the human body. Following the molecular communication paradigm, we assess how our nanoparticulate system mod...

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