{"title":"Mechanical Tuning of Magnetic Anisotropy","authors":"M. M. Torunbalci, S. Bhave","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056417","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates piezo-mechanical manipulation of magnetic anisotropy in a thin-film CoFeB ferromagnet (FM) via magnetostriction effect. A 20 nm thick CoFeB resistor is fabricated at the base of an AlN cantilever and its magnetization change is detected by measuring anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR). The uniaxial strain induced in the CoFeB strip by cantilever bending exhibits a 22% change in AMR and rotates the magnetic anisotropy by 20°.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"120 1","pages":"1145-1148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87721431","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":"3D Microfluidic Device for Perfusion Culture of Spheroids","authors":"K. Nishimura, Minghao Nie, S. Takeuchi","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056442","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a 3D spheroid trapping device featured with a gel formed in the proximity with the spheroids to facilitate spheroid adhesion and perfusion. The device is composed of an upper channel to introduce pre-gel solutions, a bridge region to form a gel and a lower channel to trap a spheroid and perfuse culture media. Due to surface-tension-assisted microfluidic functions, a gel is formed only in the bridge region. The gel performs as an anchoring scaffold for spheroids and enables media perfusion. As a result of spheroid culture, angiogenic vascular sprouts were formed and the sprouts had branched lumen structure. We believe this device will contribute widely to biomedical studies.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"75 1","pages":"998-1001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85723707","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}
Jongwan Lee, Kyunghun Lee, Cong Wang, Dogyeong Ha, Jungyul Park, Taesung Kim
{"title":"Comprehensive Analysis and Control of Diffusioosmosis-Driven Ionic Transport Through Interconnected Nanoporous Membranes","authors":"Jongwan Lee, Kyunghun Lee, Cong Wang, Dogyeong Ha, Jungyul Park, Taesung Kim","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056409","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a micro-/nanofluidic platform enabling the comprehensive analysis and control of diffusioosmosis (DO)-driven ionic transport through a nanochannel network. The nanochannel network is fabricated in the microfluidic channel by forming a membrane via the self-assembly of nanoparticles (i.e., self-assembled particle membrane, SAPM). This fabrication method allows to use various and different nanoparticles so that it is possible to modulate the material properties of the nanochannel network. Using the platform, we analyze the thermal effect on DO-driven ionic transport with various concentrations of electrolyte solutions with the aid of a temperature switching device (TSD).","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"1134-1136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86007312","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":"Modeling and First Characterization of Broad-Spectrum Vibration Rejection of Frequency Modulated Gyroscopes","authors":"M. Bestetti, V. Zega, G. Langfelder","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056265","url":null,"abstract":"The work presents a detailed modeling and the first-ever characterization of a frequency modulated (FM) yaw gyroscope in presence of vibrations from low frequency (30 Hz), through the main modes, and up to 40 kHz. The gyroscope two in-plane axes (around 25 kHz) are operated under a Lissajous trajectory (70 Hz period) by an integrated circuit (IC) including oscillators, frequency digitization, and digital demodulation stages. In presence of $2-g_{pk-pk}$ vibrations, no effects are visible across the spectrum apart from the region including the modes. In this range, as predicted by theory, for each axis no effect is observed for accelerations at the axis resonance (< 0.1 dps/g), but a huge effect (tens of dps/g) is visible for accelerations at an offset frequency from resonance corresponding to the mode split.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"259-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75072469","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}
Chenchen Zhang, H. Mao, Meng Shi, J. Xiong, Kewen Long, Dapeng Chen
{"title":"A Fiber-Si3N4 Composite Nanoforest with High 7.6 to $11.6 mumathrm{m}$ Absorption for MEMS Infrared Sensors","authors":"Chenchen Zhang, H. Mao, Meng Shi, J. Xiong, Kewen Long, Dapeng Chen","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056198","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a fiber-Si3N4 composite nanoforest with high absorption in 7.6 to $11.6 mu mathrm{m}$ wavelength range is presented. Especially, when thickness of a Si3N4 coating reaches 300 nm, the nanoforest can achieve an average absorption as high as 88.12%. Such a composite nanoforest is fabricated based on an extremely simple process, including spin-coating and plasma treating of a polyimide layer, followed by deposition of a Si3N4 film. The process is fully compatible with conventional micromachining, thus the nanoforest can be integrated onto MEMS infrared (IR) sensors as an additional absorber. Furthermore, with such a composite nanoforest-based absorber, the IR sensors are expected to achieve higher performance, especially for human IR sensing.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"949-952"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74473396","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":"Long-Rangeultrasound Wake-Up Receiver with a Piezoelectric Nanoscale Ultrasound Transducer (pNUT)","authors":"Pietro Simeoni, Matteo Castellani, G. Piazza","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056287","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the first implementation of a long-range wake-up receiver (WuRx) enabled by an aggressively scaled 100 nm thick aluminum nitride transducer that occupies an area of only $100 mu mathrm{m} times 100 mu mathrm{m}$. This piezoelectric Nanoscale Ultrasound Transducer (pNUT) offers the same sensitivity and characteristic impedance of its microscale counterparts but enables “dust-like” WuRx because of its dramatically reduced size. We validate this concept by synthesizing a WuRx using a pNUT and off-the-shelf electronic components forming a voltage amplifier, an envelope detector and a comparator (Fig. 1). We demonstrate robust data transfer over a range of 0.5 m when operating with a 40 kHz carrier signal modulated at 250Hz. Based on these measurements we extrapolate the device performance at resonance to show that communication over> 10m is possible without increasing the WuRx area.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"849-852"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78240346","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}
Tobias Weber, C. Zgierski-Johnston, Eric Klein, S. Ayub, P. Kohl, O. Paul, P. Ruther
{"title":"Concentric, Mems-Based Optoelectromechanical Pacer for Multimodal Cardiac Excitation","authors":"Tobias Weber, C. Zgierski-Johnston, Eric Klein, S. Ayub, P. Kohl, O. Paul, P. Ruther","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056115","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the fabrication, assembly, characterization and validation of a novel opto-electrical cardiac stimulator designed to augment a mechanical pacing device. The integration of miniaturized electrodes and blue light-emitting diode (LED) chips on the pacer tip with a diameter of 1 mm enables the application of multimodal stimuli in one location on the surface of isolated murine hearts. The opto-electrical stimulator is based on two separate polyimide (PI) substrates each with a thickness of $10 mu mathrm{m}$ combined into a functional unit based on dedicated assembly and encapsulation processes using silicone rubber. The experimental validation in isolated, whole hearts compares electrical, optical and mechanical stimuli exerted at frequencies of up to 8 Hz on Langen-dorff-perfused hearts expressing channelrhodopsin-2. The integrated iridium oxide electrodes implemented above the LED chips enable simultaneous electrical recordings of local cardiac electrical activity.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"361-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80162608","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":"Massive Integration of Light Driving Gel Actuator for Single Cell Manipulation","authors":"Yuha Koike, Hiroki Wada, Y. Yokoyama, T. Hayakawa","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056395","url":null,"abstract":"We propose drive method of on-chip gel actuator using light irradiation for massive integration of gel actuators. The gel actuator is made of temperature responsive gel and patterned on a chip with light absorbing material. Thus, it can be driven by irradiation of light to control its temperature. By using this method, we can selectively drive an actuator among massively integrated actuators by irradiating patterned light and it can be applied to high-throughput cell manipulations. In this study, we demonstrated an example of cell manipulation by using this method. We made a flow channel for cell transportation by irradiating light. We succeeded in making straight channel by irradiating actuators with sheet laser. In this channel, we observed that motile cells moved and we succeeded in trapping the motile cells by turning off the laser and swelling the actuators.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"41 1","pages":"1094-1097"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81737390","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}
Seungmin Lee, Youngbin Hyun, Kang-Young Lee, Jeongmin Lee, S. Chung
{"title":"Self-Cleaning Drop Free Glass Operated by Acoustic Atomization/Oscillation for Autonomous Driving and IoT Technology","authors":"Seungmin Lee, Youngbin Hyun, Kang-Young Lee, Jeongmin Lee, S. Chung","doi":"10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056111","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents self-cleaning drop free glass (DFG) through acoustic atomization and oscillation for autonomous driving and IoT technology. The behavior of an oscillating droplet actuated by a ring-piezoactuator is investigated by high-speed images in a wide range of acoustic amplitudes and frequencies. The atomization and oscillation of a droplet are separately tested using prepared DFG samples. The droplet atomization remains tiny satellite droplets on the surface of the DFG after the operation, while the droplet oscillation clearly removes the droplet from the surface. The DFG can be used to efficiently clean water and viscous droplets generated on the surface of various optical sensors.","PeriodicalId":6776,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"36-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82466971","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}