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Micromachines, Volume 9, Issue 4

April 2018 - 58 articles

Cover Story: Thermotaxis and chemotaxis are defined as the tendency of cells and microorganisms under thermal and chemical gradients to migrate toward favorable physical situations and avoid damage and death. Advances in microfluidics have enhanced the precision of controlling and capturing microscale samples, and bridged the gap between in-vitro and in-situ assays, specifically in taxis experiments. Thermo- and chemotaxis inspired the design and development of novel microfluidic systems and devices based on thermocapillary and chemocapillary flow control. View this paper
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Articles (58)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,915 Views
13 Pages

11 April 2018

Thermocompression bonding for wafer-level hermetic packaging was demonstrated at the lowest temperature of 370 to 390 °C ever reported using Al films with thin Sn capping or insertions as bonding layer. For shrinking the chip size of MEMS (micro elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,447 Views
19 Pages

Microfabricated Vapor Cells with Reflective Sidewalls for Chip Scale Atomic Sensors

  • Runqi Han,
  • Zheng You,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Hongbo Xue and
  • Yong Ruan

11 April 2018

We investigate the architecture of microfabricated vapor cells with reflective sidewalls for applications in chip scale atomic sensors. The optical configuration in operation is suitable for both one-beam and two-beam (pump & probe) schemes. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,036 Views
19 Pages

11 April 2018

Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) suspended inductors have excellent radio-frequency (RF) performance, but poor mechanical properties. To improve their reliability, auxiliary pillars have been used. However, few studies have been carried out on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,183 Views
12 Pages

9 April 2018

The fabrication and testing of spiral microchannels with a trapezoidal cross section for the passive separation of microparticles is reported in this article. In contrast to previously reported fabrication methods, the fabrication of trapezoidal spir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,438 Views
9 Pages

9 April 2018

A millimeter-wave substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) has been demonstrated using micromachined tungsten-coated through glass silicon via (TGSV) structures. Two-step deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) of silicon vias and selective tungsten coating ont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,208 Views
13 Pages

9 April 2018

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators require fast, accurate, and cost-effective testing for mass production. Among the different test methods, frequency domain analysis is one of the easiest and fastest. This paper presents the measuremen...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,129 Views
14 Pages

Stretchable Tattoo-Like Heater with On-Site Temperature Feedback Control

  • Andrew Stier,
  • Eshan Halekote,
  • Andrew Mark,
  • Shutao Qiao,
  • Shixuan Yang,
  • Kenneth Diller and
  • Nanshu Lu

8 April 2018

Wearable tissue heaters can play many important roles in the medical field. They may be used for heat therapy, perioperative warming and controlled transdermal drug delivery, among other applications. State-of-the-art heaters are too bulky, rigid, or...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,464 Views
9 Pages

Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts

  • Jihyung Lee,
  • Xiaoli Hu,
  • Andrey A. Voevodin,
  • Ashlie Martini and
  • Diana Berman

7 April 2018

Recent advances in graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) material synthesis and characterization have led to their use in emerging technologies, including flexible electronics. However, a major challenge is electrical contact stability, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,972 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2018

We report a new analytical model of the MEMS-based thermal property sensor for samples which are difficult to handle and susceptible to damage by thermal stimulus, such as living cells. Many sensor designs had been reported for thermal property measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,378 Views
10 Pages

SF6 Optimized O2 Plasma Etching of Parylene C

  • Lingqian Zhang,
  • Yaoping Liu,
  • Zhihong Li and
  • Wei Wang

2 April 2018

Parylene C is a widely used polymer material in microfabrication because of its excellent properties such as chemical inertness, biocompatibility and flexibility. It has been commonly adopted as a structural material for a variety of microfluidics an...

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