the resonant frequency and sensitivity of an atomic force microscope (afm) cantilever with assembled cantilever probe (acp) have been analyzed and a closed-form expression for the sensitivity of vibration modes has been obtained. the proposed acp comprises an inclined cantilever and extension, and a tip located at the free end of the extension, which makes the afm capable of topography at sidew...

This study investigates the asset pricing implications of the V-shaped disposition effect, a newly-documented behavior pattern characterized by investors being more likely to sell a security when the magnitude of their gains or losses on it increases. I find that, on an aggregate level, stocks with both large unrealized gains and large unrealized losses outperform others in the following month....

In this article, we discuss an uncooled infrared IR detector based on an “arch-type” design realized with advanced microelectromechanical systems technology. Bimaterial microcantilevers undergo bending as their temperature changes due to the absorption of infrared photons. The bending is proportional to dissimilar thermal expansion of the two different materials composing the cantilever. We sel...

Flow Energy Harvesters (FEHs), equipped with piezoelectric active layers, are designed to extract energy from non-pulsating flows. FEHs featuring cantilevers tip-mounted Vibration Inducers (VIs) develop a galloping motion. In this paper, we present the modelling of recently introduced VI shape, semitubular-shaped winglets, which do not produce wake interacting cantilever. Such peculiarity allow...

This paper reports the extended design and simulation of a screen printed piezoelectric energy harvester. The proposed design was based on a previous credit card sized smart tag sensor node, and packages the power conditioning circuit in the free space above the tungsten proof mass layer. This approach enables electronic components to be mounted onto the cantilever beam. These are used to provi...

We report on a new wafer transfer technique that can remove and transfer surface-micromachined layers to application-specific substrates. This process, however, is not limited to only MEMS devices and can be applicable to other semiconductor devices. Successful transfer of a 1 cm x 1 cm MEMS chip with electrostatically actuated curled cantilever switches to a transparent quartz substrate has be...

Background Phase contrast MRI (PC-MRI) sequences conventionally use triangular and trapezoidal gradient waveforms to construct flow compensated and flow encoded (FCFE) [1] or Bipolar [2] velocity encoding gradients. This approach does not make optimal use of the available gradient hardware for all time points, but convex optimization (CVX) can be used to design minimum-duration, arbitrarily sha...