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Smart Materials for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 3089

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Nathan Jackson

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Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
Interests: piezoelectrics; energy harvesting; acoustic resonators; flexible/stretchable electronics; stimuli responsive polymers
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Smart Materials for Micro Electro Mechanicanical Systems (MEMS)” for Materials will publish original work focusing on the development of smart materials with a MEMS target application. Papers can include areas focusing on fabrication techniques, material characterization, the development of novel materials, enhancing material properties, integration with MEMS, sensing, and actuation. MEMS applications of interest include energy conversion, BioMEMS, resonators, sensors, and actuators.

Smart or functional materials are often the key components required to allow the MEMS device to operate, and therefore they should be the main focus of the submitted manuscript. Significant advances in this area continue to enhance MEMS performance, and novel material or integration techniques allow next generation MEMS devices to be developed. Possible smart materials range from but are not limited to piezoelectrics, magnetcs, photonics, triboelectrics, stimuli-responsive polymers, composites, hybrids, flexible/stretchable, photomechanical, and shape memory materials. Methods of depositing MEMS materials using additive manufacturing methods are also welcome. Manuscripts should focus on the smart material developed, but should also include information on the entended MEMS device or application.  

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit an original manuscript to this Special Issue. Full communications and review papers are welcome.

Assist. Prof. Nathan Jackson
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • functional materials
  • MEMS
  • piezoelectrics
  • polymers
  • integration
  • sensing
  • microfabrication

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In Situ Doping of Nitrogen in <110>-Oriented Bulk 3C-SiC by Halide Laser Chemical Vapour Deposition
by Youfeng Lai, Lixue Xia, Qingfang Xu, Qizhong Li, Kai Liu, Meijun Yang, Song Zhang, Mingxu Han, Takashi Goto, Lianmeng Zhang and Rong Tu
Materials 2020, 13(2), 410; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13020410 - 15 Jan 2020
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Doping of nitrogen is a promising approach to improve the electrical conductivity of 3C-SiC and allow its application in various fields. N-doped, <110>-oriented 3C-SiC bulks with different doping concentrations were prepared via halide laser chemical vapour deposition (HLCVD) using tetrachlorosilane (SiCl4) [...] Read more.
Doping of nitrogen is a promising approach to improve the electrical conductivity of 3C-SiC and allow its application in various fields. N-doped, <110>-oriented 3C-SiC bulks with different doping concentrations were prepared via halide laser chemical vapour deposition (HLCVD) using tetrachlorosilane (SiCl4) and methane (CH4) as precursors, along with nitrogen (N2) as a dopant. We investigated the effect of the volume fraction of nitrogen (ϕN2) on the preferred orientation, microstructure, electrical conductivity (σ), deposition rate (Rdep), and optical transmittance. The preference of 3C-SiC for the <110> orientation increased with increasing ϕN2. The σ value of the N-doped 3C-SiC bulk substrates first increased and then decreased with increasing ϕN2, reaching a maximum value of 7.4 × 102 S/m at ϕN2 = 20%. Rdep showed its highest value (3000 μm/h) for the undoped sample and decreased with increasing ϕN2, reaching 1437 μm/h at ϕN2 = 30%. The transmittance of the N-doped 3C-SiC bulks decreased with ϕN2 and showed a declining trend at wavelengths longer than 1000 nm. Compared with the previously prepared <111>-oriented N-doped 3C-SiC, the high-speed preparation of <110>-oriented N-doped 3C-SiC bulks further broadens its application field. Full article
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