We describe a CMOS-based micro-system for time-resolved fluorescence lifetime analysis. It comprises a 16 × 4 array of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) fabricated in 0.35 μm high-voltage CMOS technology with in-pixel time-gated photon counting...
The intensive development of photovoltaic (PV) micro-systems contributes to increased interest in energy efficiency and diagnosing the condition of such solutions. Optimizing system energy efficiency and servicing costs are particularly noteworthy am...
High-speed digital microsystems has emerged as one of the most important solutions for improving system performance, bandwidth, and power consumption. Based on mature micro-system processing technology, a material extraction approach for silicon inte...
In this work, 1.5-level interconnections of RF microsystems with good RF performance, integration process compatibility, and high reliability are developed to meet the future demand for wireless communication microsystems in the millimeter wave band....
Micro-combustion for micro-thermophotovoltaic (MTPV) and micro-thermoelectric (MTE) systems is gaining renewed interest as a pathway toward compact power generation with high energy density. This review examines how emerging artificial intelligence (...
Microsystems with capabilities of acoustic signal perception and recognition are widely used in unattended monitoring applications. In order to realize long-term and large-scale monitoring, microsystems with ultra-low power consumption are always req...
Microsystems play an important role in the Internet of Things (IoT). In many unattended IoT applications, microsystems with small size, lightweight, and long life are urgently needed to achieve covert, large-scale, and long-term distribution for targ...
The accelerating pace of research in neuroscience has created a considerable demand for neural interfacing microsystems capable of monitoring the activity of large groups of neurons. These emerging tools have revealed a tremendous potential for the a...
Road lighting systems require a significant amount of electric energy. To compensate for the utilized energy, the concept of a nanogrid road lighting system is presented. A solar panel is installed on the top of a lighting pole to generate electric p...
Wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) and intelligent microsystems are crucial components of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. In various IoT applications, small, lightweight, and low-power microsystems are essential to enable autonomous ed...
The expression “quantum materials” identifies materials whose properties “cannot be described in terms of semiclassical particles and low-level quantum mechanics”, i.e., where lattice, charge, spin and orbital degrees of freed...
Microsystems are widely used in 5G, the Internet of Things, smart electronic devices and other fields, and signal integrity (SI) determines their performance. Establishing accurate and fast predictive models and intelligent optimization models for SI...
The design and implementation of the battery energy storage system in DC micro-grid systems is demonstrated in this paper. The battery energy storage system (BESS) is an important part of a DC micro-grid because renewable energy generation sources ar...
In recent years, microelectronics technology has entered the era of nanoelectronics/integrated microsystems. System in Package (SiP) and System on Chip (SoC) are two important technical approaches for microsystems. The development of micro-system tec...
The control system for a micro-hydropower plant using an Archimedes screw turbine is the focus of this work. Three control systems were implemented based on a Barreda micro-hydropower plant (Spain) currently in operation: an optimal water level contr...
The paper highlights that hydraulic systems are widely used in various machine applications. Among the evaluation criteria for these systems, the noise-related criterion is also considered. This criterion also applies to micro-hydraulic systems as th...
To restrict global warming and relieve climate change, the world economy requires to decarbonize and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to net-zero by mid-century. Carbon capture and storage (CCS), and carbon capture and utilization (CCU), by whic...
Beyond printing text on paper, inkjet printing methods have recently been applied to print passive electrical and optical microparts, such as conductors, resistors, solder bumps and polymeric micro lenses. They are also useful to print micro-electro-...
Oral mucositis (OM) is a severe inflammatory condition of the oral mucosa that is commonly associated with cancer therapies. Traditional treatments typically have limited efficacy and significant side effects, necessitating alternative approaches. Na...
Modern scanning microscopes and robotic scanning systems increasingly use visual recognition and machine learning technologies to extract complex data from acquired images. This study examined sensor data fusion in optical imaging to detect and contr...
An efficient multi-objective optimization method of temperature and stress for a microsystem based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) was established, which is used to map the relationship between through-silicon via (TSV) structural design paramet...
Micro-credentials are reshaping higher education credentialing, yet existing models mostly link their components through one-way causality, while systems thinking pedagogy has developed largely around STEM and sustainability rather than higher educat...
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) can be used to produce micro-assembled products that are too complex for assembly on flat substrates like printed circuit boards. The greatest advantage of RMS is their capability to reuse machine parts for...
Wireless microsystems for neural signal recording have emerged as a solution to overcome the limitations of tethered systems, which restrict the mobility of subjects and introduce noise interference. However, existing microsystems often face data thr...
This paper analyzes the impact of photovoltaic (PV) systems on storage and electric vehicles in micro-grids. As these kinds of systems are becoming increasingly popular in the residential sector, the development of a new generation of equipment, such...
In recent years, wearable electronic devices have made considerable progress thanks to the rapid development of the Internet of Things. However, even though some of them have preliminarily achieved miniaturization and wearability, the drawbacks of fr...
In this paper, the main excitation sources of micro vibration of spacecraft flywheel rotor systems (SFRSs) are briefly described, and then the research progress is systematically reviewed from four perspectives, including modeling methods, suppressio...
This paper presents a modular and distributed supervisory control integration framework for intelligent micro-manufacturing systems (MMSs) under event-level failures. Addressing the increasing demand for scalable and reliable supervisory control in b...
This paper presents an optimization approach for Micro-cogeneration systems with internal combustion engines integrated into residential grids, addressing power demand failures caused by intermittent renewable energy sources. The proposed method leve...
In this paper, we present a non-fluidic microsystem for the simultaneous visualization and electrochemical evaluation of confined, growing bacteria on solid media. Using a completely automated platform, real-time monitoring of bacterial and image-bas...
An experimental setup to perform dynamic analysis of a micro- and nano-mechanical system in vacuum, gas, and liquid is presented. The setup mainly consists of a piezoelectric excitation part and the chamber that can be either evacuated for vacuum, or...
Targeted delivery of pharmaceuticals is promising for efficient disease treatment and reduction in adverse effects. Nano or microstructured magnetic materials with strong magnetic momentum can be noninvasively controlled via magnetic forces within li...
This research evaluates Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Compressed Air Vessels (CAV) as complementary solutions for enhancing micro-grid resilience, flexibility, and sustainability. BESS units ranging from 5 to 400 kWh were modeled using a...
In the context of the great research pulse on clean energy transition, distributed energy systems have a key role, especially in the case of integration of both renewable and traditional energy sources. The stable interest in small-scale gas turbines...
The integration of renewable energy sources (RES) was amplified, during the past decades, in order to tackle the challenges related to energy demands and CO2 increases. Recently, many initiatives have been taken by promoting the deployment and the us...
Distributed Generation (DG) has changed the power generation system to small-scale instead of large-scale generation. The demanding issue with the interconnection of DG is the detection of unintended islanding in a network. Several methods proposed i...
Microsystem devices are widely used in key fields such as aerospace. The various contaminants generated during their manufacturing process have the characteristics of diverse forms and are easily affected by background interference, making them diffi...
In this paper, we present and discuss our new WSi–WSiN–Pt metallization scheme for SiC-based microsystems for applications in harsh environments. Stoichiometric material WSi was selected as contact material for SiC. The diffusion barrier material WSi...
To explore the influence of reaction wheel perturbations on the image quality of a space optical telescope, a comprehensive dynamic model of a precision optical system was established, and an optical-mechanical integrated analysis approach was adopte...
The detection of cancer at its earliest stage is crucial in order to increase the probability of a successful treatment. Optical techniques, specifically diffuse reflectance and fluorescence, may considerably improve the ability to detect pre-cancero...
A control circuit for inductive levitation micro-actuators was developed in this research, the circuit’s performance and its electrical parameters are discussed. The developed control circuit was fabricated on a four-layer printed circuit board (PCB)...
This paper presents comprehensive guidelines for the design and analysis of a thin diaphragm that is used in a variety of microsystems, including microphones and pressure sensors. It highlights the empirical relations that can be utilized for the des...
This paper aims to provide control strategies for distributed micro-storage energy systems at the residential level to contribute to smart grid goals. A simulation model of an energy storage system (ESS) charger has been implemented to test these pro...
Commercial proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC)-based micro-combined heat and power (micro-CHP) systems are operated by rule-based energy management systems (EMSs). These EMSs are easy to implement but do not perform an explicit economic optimi...
The delaying mechanism is an important part of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices. However, very few mechanical delaying mechanisms are available. In this paper, an elastic-beam delaying mechanism has been proposed innovatively through e...
Fluorescence spectroscopy has become a prominent research tool with wide applications in medical diagnostics and bio-imaging. However, the realization of combined high-performance, portable, and low-cost spectroscopic sensors still remains a challeng...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been directly grown onto a silicon microsystem by a local synthesis method. This method has potential for wafer-level complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor-compatible integration of CNTs into more com...
Micro-scale Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPSs) can be automatically and formally estimated by probabilistic model checking, on the level of system model MDPs (Markov Decision Processes) against desired requirements in PCTL (Probabilistic Computation Tree...
Our present standard of living depends strongly on energy sources, with buildings being a primary focus when it comes to reducing energy consumption due to their large contribution, especially in tertiary buildings. The goal of the present study is t...
This paper presents the design and implementation of an integrated wireless microsystem platform that provides the possibility to support versatile implantable neural sensing devices in free laboratory rats. Inductive coupled coils with low dropout r...
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