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A Simple and Scalable Model for Spiral Inductors on Silicon

Sia C.B., Yeo K.S., Goh W.L., Swe T.N., Ma J.G., Do M.A., Lin J.S., Chan L., Nanyang Technological University, US

A new, simple and scalable inductor model for silicon-based spiral inductors has been presented in this paper. Compared to the conventional model, it can predict accurately the inductive characteristics and quality factor for inductors of [...]

Study of a Novel Isotropic Suspension Design for an Angular Gyroscope

Painter C., Shkel A., University of California Irvine, US

This paper describes the analysis of a novel isotropic suspension designed for use in a Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) z-axis angular gyroscope.The suspension,consisting of six concentric interconnected rings rigidly attached to an anchored frame,supports [...]

MEMS Simulation in Heavily Doped Silicon Devices

Matsuda K., Kanda Y., Naruto University of Education, US

Simulation of the semiconductor transport under heavily doped and stressed conditions is presented. The degenerate statistics are introduced by taking into account the density-of-state functions for the band tail and the impurity band. The momentum-dependent [...]

A Novel Polymer Nanofiber Interface for Chemical and Biochemical Sensor Applications

Kwoun S.J., Lee R.M., Han B., Ko F.K., Drexel University, US

Polymer thin films are used extensively as a chemically sensing medium in variety types of acoustic sensors. It is well known that the sensitivity of a sensing film is proportional to the surface area of [...]

Modeling and Dynamic Simulation of Electrostatically Driven Micromirror

Kweon S., Lee H., Shin H., Samsung Electronics Co.Ltd., US

Dynamic behavior of the electrostatically driven bi-directional micromirror system was simulated with ANSYS parametric design language. The objective of the study is to construct a dynamic simulation scheme for the transient properties of electrostatically coupled [...]

Effects of Slider-Driven Piezo-Microactuator Placements and Profiles on HGA Sway Mode

Yang J.P., Chen S.X., National University of Singapore, US

With areal recording density of hard disk drives (HDD) historically growing at an average of 60% per year, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to maintain the precise positioning required of the ever-smaller GMR heads [...]

The Applicability of Temperature Correction to Chemoresistive Sensors in an e-NOSE-ANN System

Hobson R., Guiseppi-Elie A., Commonwealth University, US

The influence of the temperature sensitivity of chemoresistive, inherently-conductive-polymer (ICP) sensors on the performance of an artificial neural network (ANN) e-NOSE system is evaluated. Temperature was found to strongly influence the responses of t

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