Glassy Materials Based Microdevices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D:Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2018) | Viewed by 102231
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glassy and glass-ceramic materials; nanostructured materials; microfabrication; integrated optics; optical microresonators
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Dear Colleagues,
Microtechnology has changed our world since the last century, when silicon microelectronics revolutionized sensor, control and communication areas, with applications extending from domotics to automotive, and from security to biomedicine. The present century, however, is also seeing an accelerating pace of innovation in glassy materials; as an example, glass-ceramics, which successfully combine the properties of an amorphous matrix with those of micro- or nano-crystals, offer a very high flexibility of design to chemists, physicists and engineers, who can conceive and implement advanced microdevices. In a very similar way, the synthesis of glassy polymers in a very wide range of chemical structures offers unprecedented potential of applications. The contemporary availability of microfabrication technologies, such as direct laser writing or 3D printing, which add to the most common processes (deposition, lithography and etching), facilitates the development of novel or advanced microdevices based on glassy materials. Biochemical and biomedical sensors, especially with the lab-on-a-chip target, are one of the most evident proofs of the success of this material platform. Other applications have also emerged in environment, food, and chemical industries.
The present Special Issue of Micromachines aims at reviewing the current state-of-the-art and presenting perspectives of further development. Contributions related to the technologies, glassy materials, design and fabrication processes, characterization, and, eventually, applications are welcome.
Papers in all areas of glass, glass-ceramic, and polymer microdevices will be considered, including but not limited to:
- Smart glasses and smart polymers
- Synthesis of glassy materials for microdevice fabrication
- Microtechnologies for glassy microdevices
- Laser writing of microstructures/microdevices
- 3D printing with glassy materials
- Structural/topographical analysis of glassy microdevices
- Optical glassy microdevices
- Optical fiber microdevices
- Micromechanical and optomechanical glassy devices
- Glass microresonators
- Glassy-material based sensors
- Microfluidics in glassy materials
- Microreactors
- Microdevices for electrophoresis
- Particle detection and sorting
- Integration technologies
- Microdevices for nanomedicine
- Functionalization of glassy microdevices
- Biological sensing in glassy microdevices
- Applications in chemical industry
- Applications in life sciences
- Applications in energy
Contributions dealing with the latest work in the field and reviews on all aspects of glassy-materials-based microdevices will be considered.
Dr. Giancarlo C. RighiniDr. Nicoletta Righini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- glass
- polymers
- hybrid materials
- glass ceramics
- microdevices
- guided-wave optical devices
- microtechnologies
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