New Advances in Micro-Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 440
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micro manufacturing; micro-devices; micro-injection molding; laser microfabrication; smart manufacturing; digital twins; process monitoring; the design of experiments; process optimization; quality process control
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Interests: cleanroom fabrication; optoelectronics; microfluidics; micro-fabrication methods for plastic devices; the design and simulation of microfluidic tools; new-generation technologies for healthcare and environmental purposes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there has been an important growth of micro-device proposals in various fields, including biomedical, automotive, and aerospace fields, among others. This growth is due to the strong market interest in materials other than silicon, such as polymers, glass, and composite materials, which allow equally performing micro-devices to be obtained, but at a much lower cost thanks to the availability of high-performance micro-manufacturing technologies. Their features of precision and reproducibility, as well as their low cost and scaling suitability, always make their use more appealing for innovative microfabrication. Smart manufacturing techniques, starting from standard additive manufacturing to two-photon fabrication, also offer the ability to quickly and reliably prototype micro-devices to reduce the risk of costly rework. The advent of Industry 4.0 has also given a strong push to the monitoring of processes through sensors, facilitating the application of Digital Twin techniques that digitally reproduce processes in a rather realistic way, allow an even more accurate assessment to be made on the digital concept with important implications in terms of the feasibility of implementing the micro-device.
Dr. Gianluca Trotta
Dr. Francesco Ferrara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- micro-devices
- micro-manufacturing
- 3D lithography
- smart manufacturing
- industry 4.0
- digital twins
- process monitoring
- polymers
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