The design and realization of two pumps based on micromachining of silicon are described. The pumps, which are of the reciprocating displacement type, comprise one or two pump chambers, a thin glass pump membrane actuated by a piezoelectric disc and passive silicon check valves to direct the flow. Chambers, channels and valves are realized in a silicon wafer by wet chemical etching. The results...

In four experiments, we explored observers’ ability to make heading judgments from simulated linear and circular translations through sparse forests and with pursuit fixation on one tree. We assessed observers’ performance and information use in both regression and factorial designs. In all experiments we found that observers used three sources of object-based information to make their judgment...

DNA strand displacement has been used to construct a variety of components, devices, and circuits. The sequences of involved nucleic acid molecules can greatly influence the kinetics and function of strand displacement reactions. To facilitate consideration of spurious reactions during the design process, one common strategy is to subdivide DNA strands into domains, continuous nucleic acid base...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) structures are known to be rather vulnerable to seismic loading. Modern URM buildings with reinforced concrete (RC) slabs might, however, have an acceptable seismic performance for regions of low to moderate seismicity. In particular in countries of moderate seismicity it is often difficult to demonstrate the seismic safety of modern URM buildings by means of force-ba...

Piezoelectric principles are widely used to harvest energy in the process of vibrating piezoelectric mass. Different design configurations were studied in the research papers listed. A novel dynamic method of Lead Zirconate Titanate Sensor (PZT) to obtain d33 suitable for the MEMS applications is designed, simulated and analysed results were compared with the fabricated sensor. The Lead Zircona...

this paper presents a modified 32-bit rom-based direct digital frequency synthesizer (ddfs). maximum output frequency of the ddfs is limited by the structure of the accumulator used in the ddfs architecture. the hierarchical pipeline accumulator (hpa) presented in this paper has less propagation delay time rather than the conventional structures. therefore, it results in both higher maximum ope...