The geometrical constraints and dimensional tolerances lead to specific design issues of MEMS manipulators for biological applications. target properties become even more important in the case vitro manipulation cells. Several solutions have been proposed literature, however, some related thermal heating microgripper tips electric voltage effects still remain unsolved. This paper reports additi...

The very significant growth of the wireless communication industry has spawned tremendous interest in the development of high performances radio frequencies (RF) components. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are good candidates to allow reconfigurable RF functions such as filters, oscillators or antennas. This paper will focus on the MEMS electromechanical resonators which show interestin...

With the development of Micro Electro Mechanical System(MEMS), it's application in the fields of biomedical engineering becomes a vital consideration. This paper describes the advantages of Minimally invasive Surgery (MIS) and its applications. A novel medical endoscope driven by micro robot is also introduced.

A new type of optical pulse shaper for arbitrary waveform generation is demonstrated, based on fiber Bragg grating and micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technologies. This is an on-chip device which is compact, robust, monolithic, and programmable and can be used for a variety of applications such as higher order dispersion compensation in fiber communication links and high-energy pulse am...

AbstractWe have demonstrated the impact of developments in nanotechnology to Hard Disk Drive (HDD) technology. We have put forth a proposition to enhance the modeling of future storage devices based on innovations in the field of Nanotechnology and MEMS. We have elucidated the influence of recent advances of Nano-Composites, MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) etc. and their implications to...

The very significant growth of the wireless communication industry has spawned tremendous interest in the development of high performances radio frequencies (RF) components. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are good candidates to allow reconfigurable RF functions such as filters, oscillators or antennas. This paper will focus on the MEMS electromechanical resonators which show interestin...

We study the existence and stability of periodic solutions of a canonical mass-spring model of electrostatically actuated micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) by means of classical topological techniques like a-priori bounds, Leray-Schauder degree and topological index. A saddle-node bifurcation is revealed, in analogy with the autonomous case.

The integrated navigation systems of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) are used to provide direct-georeferencing for Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS). MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) inertial sensors have been developed to the stage that the GPS/INS integration systems based on low-cost MEMS IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) are considered to be used as a ...

A bandwidth-tunable filter has been demonstrated based on a micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) actuated single-crystalline silicon microtoroidal resonator. Bandwidth is tuned from 2.8 to 78.4 GHz by voltage control, the largest bandwidth tuning range reported to date to our knowledge in resonator-based filters. A 21.8 dB extinction ratio is attained as a dynamic add-drop filter.

Design and modelling of MEMS test structures for the analysis of fatigue damage occurring in oscillating microstructures is presented. Finite Element models are realized to design specimen shapes and electro-mechanical actuation parameters. Two different structural geometries are defined to obtain both traction and shear tensile specimen actuations through the actuation of out-of-plane movable ...