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Micromachines, Volume 8, Issue 10

October 2017 - 28 articles

Cover Story: We propose a microrobotic platform for single motile microorganism observation and investigation. The platform utilizes a high-speed online vision sensor (robotic eye) that tracks (locks onto) a single microorganism under a microscope with a relatively high magnification ratio. The future integration potential of a stimulation system using microtools (robotic hands) is also demonstrated. Successful long-time tracking for more than 30 min, and mechanical stimulation of a freely swimming microorganism was achieved in a 2D environment utilizing a microfluidic chip. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
14,622 Views
12 Pages

23 October 2017

A maskless lithography method to realize the rapid and cost-effective fabrication of micro-optics elements with arbitrary surface profiles is reported. A digital micro-mirror device (DMD) is applied to flexibly modulate that the exposure dose accordi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,115 Views
9 Pages

Design and Fabrication of Capacitive Silicon Nanomechanical Resonators with Selective Vibration of a High-Order Mode

  • Nguyen Van Toan,
  • Tsuyoshi Shimazaki,
  • Naoki Inomata,
  • Yunheub Song and
  • Takahito Ono

20 October 2017

This paper reports the design and fabrication of capacitive silicon nanomechanical resonators with the selective vibration of a high-order mode. Fixed-fixed beam capacitive silicon resonators have been successfully produced by the use of electron bea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,419 Views
6 Pages

Transparent Ferroelectric Capacitors on Glass

  • Daniele Sette,
  • Stéphanie Girod,
  • Renaud Leturcq,
  • Sebastjan Glinsek and
  • Emmanuel Defay

20 October 2017

We deposited transparent ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films on fused silica and contacted them via Al-doped zinc oxide (AZO) transparent electrodes with an interdigitated electrode (IDE) design. These layers, together with a TiO2 buffer...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,653 Views
13 Pages

Spiral-Shaped Piezoelectric MEMS Cantilever Array for Fully Implantable Hearing Systems

  • Péter Udvardi,
  • János Radó,
  • András Straszner,
  • János Ferencz,
  • Zoltán Hajnal,
  • Saeedeh Soleimani,
  • Michael Schneider,
  • Ulrich Schmid,
  • Péter Révész and
  • János Volk

18 October 2017

Fully implantable, self-powered hearing aids with no external unit could significantly increase the life quality of patients suffering severe hearing loss. This highly demanding concept, however, requires a strongly miniaturized device which is fully...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,029 Views
12 Pages

17 October 2017

We present a study of the application of a single-step and solvent-free laser-based strategy to control the formation of polymer-derived fluorescent carbon nanodomains embedded in poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannels. A low-power, laser-induced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,976 Views
13 Pages

16 October 2017

In this work, a novel method is put forward to quantitatively simulate the subsurface damages microstructural alteration of titanium alloy components subjected to microscale cutting. A trans-scale numerical framework is conducted with the purpose of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,393 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2017

A novel fully decoupled micro inertial measurement unit (MIMU) is presented in this paper. The proposed MIMU structure, mostly focusing on the gyroscope unit, is highly symmetrical and can be limited to an area of 10,000 μm × 10,000 μm. Both the tri-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,631 Views
15 Pages

A Fluidic Interface with High Flow Uniformity for Reusable Large Area Resonant Biosensors

  • Charles-Louis Azzopardi,
  • Vivien Lacour,
  • Jean-François Manceau,
  • Magali Barthès,
  • Dimitri Bonnet,
  • Franck Chollet and
  • Thérèse Leblois

14 October 2017

Resonant biosensors are known for their high accuracy and high level of miniaturization. However, their fabrication costs prevent them from being used as disposable sensors and their effective commercial success will depend on their ability to be reu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,738 Views
16 Pages

Study on Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Machining Applying the Non-Resonant Three-Dimensional Elliptical Vibration Cutting

  • Mingming Lu,
  • Jiakang Zhou,
  • Jieqiong Lin,
  • Yan Gu,
  • Jinguo Han and
  • Dongpo Zhao

13 October 2017

The poor machinability of Ti-6Al-4V alloy makes it hard to process by conventional processing methods even though it has been widely used in military and civilian enterprise fields. Non-resonant three-dimensional elliptical vibration cutting (3D-EVC)...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
3,149 Views
2 Pages

12 October 2017

In the published paper [1], there is an error in Figure 8. The labels in Figure 8 was incorrect, it should be corrected as follows [...]

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Micromachines - ISSN 2072-666X