Scalable Manufacturing of Liquid Metal Circuits

Reconfigurable liquid metal circuits by Laplace pressure shaping

Scalable Manufacturing of Hierarchical Nanostructures

The focus of this thesis is a new simple and scalable process to make surface coatings that have multiple length scales, or hierarchical features. Typically, the formation of hierarchical structures involves multiple steps and/or long processing times. In this new process, the hierarchical geometry is formed in a single step. The starting material-spherical copper powder-is oxidized in ambient ...

Design Principles of Scalable Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

This paper explains the importance of cost-effective volume scalability of existing manufacturing systems, which enables enterprises to meet market demand in a timely manner. The system must be designed at the outset for future scalability in order to enable its rapid and cost-effective volume expansion, exactly when needed. Accordingly, this paper offers a set of principles to guide manufactur...

Verification of Scalable-Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits

The Scalable-Delay-Insensitive (SDI) model is proposed for high-performance asynchronous system design. In this paper, we focus on checking whether a circuit under SDI model satisfies some untimed properties, and formally show that checking these properties in the SDI model can be reduced to checking the same properties in the bounded delay model. This result suggests that the existing verifica...

Tayler instability in liquid metal columns and liquid metal batteries

In this paper we investigate the Tayler instability in an incompressible, viscous and resistive liquid metal column and in a model of a liquid metal battery (LMB). Detailed comparisons between theory and numerics, both in linear and nonlinear regimes, are performed. We identify the timescale that is well adapted to the quasi-static (QS) regime and find the range of Hartmann numbers where this a...