{"title":"A flexible evaporation micropump with precision flow rate control for micro-fluidic systems","authors":"Kuan‐Yu Chen, Kuang-En Chen, Kerwin Wang","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196860","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an active-evaporation micropump for micro-fluidic system. The flexible micropump featured power, cost and space efficient structure, capable of stable and adjustable flow-rate control during long working periods. Both passive and active evaporation pumping modes have been studied. Without using external power, passive mode allows the pump to work under well-controlled temperature and humidity (e.g. in incubator). Active evaporation pumping allows the pump to work under ambient which makes this design less sensitive to temperature and relative humidity fluctuation. This paper also presents a novel method for the flexible micropump fabrication.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130032986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blood vessels by fractal gelatin","authors":"Lung-Jieh Yang, Bo-Hong Chen","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196750","url":null,"abstract":"In this study the authors developed a novel gelatin patterning technique applied to making blood vessel with fractal dendrite configuration. Such a chaotic tree-like pattern has been obtained through precipitating among the gelatin matrix which is spun coating on a glass substrate at room temperature. The weight percentage of the original gelatin solution is over-saturated. As the temperature decrease, the gelatin crystallizes and forms a natural fractal pattern in the thin film. The process parameters are changed and the hydraulic diameters of the fractal patterns are verified from 0.1 μm to 23 μm. Finally the authors used the biocompatible PDMS making blood vessel like capillary channels by the de-molding process of the soft lithography. The filling test of the PDMS fractal channel chip is done accordingly.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130446286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precise width control of single crystalline silicon nano-wall structure based on wet etching process on (111) wafer","authors":"Xiao Yu, Q. Jin, Tie Li, Yuelin Wang","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196774","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a novel method for precise width control of single crystalline silicon nano-wall structures using conventional top-down micro-fabrication techniques on (111) wafers. Nano-scaled walls with perfect silicon lattices on the surface were fabricated by wet etching process. The width can be controlled at the highest resolution of 80 nm when rotating the wafer by each step of 0.5 degree in alignment, achieving to fabricate silicon walls of the width as low as 134 nm by a micron level lithography mask. These nano-wall structures can be further used to fabricate high-quality silicon-nano-wires (SiNWs) with self-limiting oxidation process.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"17 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120847073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of roll press UV imprint process for replication of micro lens array on the large and thin quartz substrate","authors":"L. Li, K. Ishii, Y. Tsutsui, S. Shoji, J. Mizuno","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196715","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, micro lens arrays (MLAs) fabrication process was carried out using flexible replica mold and an original roll press UV imprint system. We successfully demonstrated MLAs fabrication process with high throughput. The lens patterns of 30 × 100 mm2 in area replicated by two photo-curable resins were formed on the quartz substrate of 0.15 mm in thickness. This fabrication process is applicable for MLAs fabrication of next generation optical devices.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121448860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ho-Cheng Lee, Tzu-Heng Chen, W. Tseng, Che-Hsin Lin
{"title":"Novel core etching technique on synthesized gold nanoparticles for colorimetric detection of dopamine biosample","authors":"Ho-Cheng Lee, Tzu-Heng Chen, W. Tseng, Che-Hsin Lin","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196863","url":null,"abstract":"This study develops a novel and high performance colorimetric probe for dopamine (DA) detection. Aqueous-phase gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) extracted with 4-(dimethylamino) pyridine (DMAP) from toluene solvent is used as the reaction probes. The conjugated AuNPs of the diameter around 13 nm disperse into the size of 2-5 nm while adding dopamine (DA), resulting in the color change of the AuNPs solution from red to green. Therefore, the extracted AuNP solution can be a good indicator for detecting DA biosample. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations and dynamic light scattering (DLS) tests show that the AuNPs turn into smaller size right after adding DA. Results confirm that the DMAP capped AuNPs are etched by the DA molecules due to the stronger affinity between DA and AuNPs and thus cause a blue shift in the absorption spectrum. The concentration of dopamine is quantitatively monitoring using an UV-vis spectrometer with a limit of detection (LOD) of lower than 5 nM. The developed AuNPs etching protocol for dopamine detection provides a novel and versatile approach for rapid biosensing applications.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"24 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120918348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lingyun Wang, X. Du, Yuanzhe Su, Zhan Zhan, Wenjia Zuo, Daoheng Sun
{"title":"Application of nonlinear driving in frequency matching of tunneling gyroscope","authors":"Lingyun Wang, X. Du, Yuanzhe Su, Zhan Zhan, Wenjia Zuo, Daoheng Sun","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196840","url":null,"abstract":"The nonlinear vibration behavior of driving mode of a tunneling gyroscope is measured and simulated. Based upon these testing results, a new method for frequency matching is presented. Compared to traditional harmonic vibration, large amplitude and wide shift resonance frequency could be obtained in stable region of nonlinearity by using this approach, especially, in this region gyroscope could spontaneously vibrate at a certain driven frequency without needing sweep-up frequency excitation. In our tunneling gyroscope, the vibration amplitude changes from 1μm to 5μm at jumping-up point J' with the amplitude of the excitation electrostatic force increasing. At the same time, the resonant frequency of driving mode can be shifted from nature frequency 1.81 kHz to 2.2 kHz, which is much closed to the resonant frequency of sensing mode (2.23 kHz). This effect can be used as an alternative approach to trim the frequency and eliminate the frequency mismatching for the post-fabrication tunneling gyroscope, eventually, higher sensitivity could be gotten than using linear driving mode.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131168880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pseudo-spin filter in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes","authors":"D. Bercioux, L. Mayrhofer","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196778","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze the scattering properties of low-energy electrons in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes in the presence of structural defects. In particular, we focus on vacancy defects characterized by the lack of two carbon atoms. We show how the geometry of the defect with respect to the tube symmetry establishes the available scattering channels. Furthermore, we show how the reconstruction of the chemical bond among the carbon atoms at the place of the defect can induce a selection rule based on the pseudo-spin of the scattered electrons. This selection rule results in an effective filtering of the scattered electrons with respect to the pseudo-spin.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123710436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raden Dewanto, C. Dale, Zhongxu Hu, N. Keegan, B. Gallacher, J. Hedley
{"title":"Characterization of strain fields in graphene films","authors":"Raden Dewanto, C. Dale, Zhongxu Hu, N. Keegan, B. Gallacher, J. Hedley","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196712","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the Raman shifts corresponding to strain induced in graphene films. A direct correlation is demonstrated between the shifts in the D, G and 2D peaks of graphene compared to the characteristic 521cm-1 peak of the underlying silicon substrate. The approach is shown to be suitable for characterizing the graphene Raman spectrum under load conditions.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"21 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114043004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. Ou, Z. H. Liu, C. Pan, L. W. Lin, Y. J. Chen, H. Lai
{"title":"Study on piezoelectric properties of near-field electrospinning PVDF/MWCNT nano-fiber","authors":"Z. Ou, Z. H. Liu, C. Pan, L. W. Lin, Y. J. Chen, H. Lai","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196738","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, near-field electrospinning (NFES) was used to fabricate PVDF (Polyvinylidene fluoride) piezoelectric nano-fibers mixed with additional multiwalled-carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). Both mechanical strength and piezoelectric characteristics of a single nano-fiber were discussed. NFES technology can be used to fabricate PVDF piezoelectric fibers with an excellent piezoelectric property. By adjusting velocity of a x-y stage, DC voltage, and the distance between the needle and collector, the morphology and polarization intensity of piezoelectric fiber can be controlled. In addition, the optimal parameters of PVDF solution such as weight percentage of PVDF powder and MWCNT were also discussed. From the observation of XRD (X-ray diffraction), it reveals a high diffraction peak at 2θ=20.8° of piezoelectric crystal β-phase structure with PVDF/MWCNT spherical composite structures in fibers. Actuation property of fixed-fixed single PVDF fiber structure was tested using DC voltage supply, and the fiber has significant deflection in the experiment. The vertical deflection can be observed and compared with model solution.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114906663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the effect of width of metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons in plasmonic waveguide applications","authors":"S. Smaili, Vikas Singal, Y. Massoud","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196853","url":null,"abstract":"Graphene demonstrates superior electronic properties that make it a potential candidate for future electronic systems. Graphene, additionally, support surface plasmon oscillations, which in turn makes graphene attractive for optoelectronics because of its planar structure and its conductivity properties. When a graphene layer is confined in one dimension, a graphene nanoribbon arises, with proerties differing from the original two dimensional graphene. In this paper we study the main properties of plasmon oscillations on metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons using the dielectric function obtained through the random phase approximation. We mainly study the effect of the graphene nanoribbon width on the plasmon propagation length using numerical techniques to extract the dispersion relation of graphene nanoribbons and the propagation properties of palsmons on graphene nanoribbons.","PeriodicalId":156839,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123908921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}