fabrication – TechConnect Briefs

Learning MEMS Design, Simulation and Fabrication Through 3-D Printing

Dahle R., Rasel R., SUNY New Paltz, US

This paper presents a cost-effective learning tool for modeling and simulating the microfabrication process and design aspects of MEMS devices using three-dimensional (3-D) printing. This approach was developed to provide engineering educators a more affordable [...]

Self-Assembled Polystyrene Nanospheres for Plasmonic Enhancement in Biosensor Applications

Smith K., Norville C., Windham M., Dawson J.M., West Virginia University, US

The field of portable, point-of care biosensing has expanded in recent years to encompass a wide range of application areas, with detection of targets accomplished by a variety of techniques. Application-specific needs of further reduced [...]

Facile and High-Throughput Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Carpet-PDMS Structures toward Flexible Supercapacitors

Zhang R., Ding J., Yang E.H., Stevens Institute of Technology, US

Flexible electronics have a wide range of applications in wearable and multifunctional electronics [1], including flexible displays, curved smart phones, electronic skins, and implantable medical devices. Consequently technologies for flexible energy storage will have to [...]

Aerosol manufacturing of plasmonic biosensors with silica coated nanosilver

Sotiriou G.A., Blattmann C.O., Pratsinis S.E., ETH Zürich, CH

Development of biosensors for medical applications is an on-going research field of great importance. In particular localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensors show a high potential to detect analytes at low concentrations in biological fluids. [...]

Efficiency Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline Solar Cells Through Fabrication

Ilumoka A.A., UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD, US

This paper reports results obtained from the investigation of electrical performance of blueberry-based DSSCs and makes recommendations regarding their fabrication, specifically optimal sintering temperature and optimal sintering time. Electrical characteristics (open circuit voltage, short circuit [...]

Laser Writing of Metallic Nanostructures in a Polymer Matrix with Applications to Metamaterials

Shukla S., Vidal X., Furlani E.P., Swihart M.T., Prasad P.N., Harvard University, US

We present a novel laser-based method for directly writing metallic nanostructures in a polymer matrix with sub-wavelength resolution [1]. The method involves two-photon lithography (TPL) in which a femtosecond-pulsed laser induces two-photon initiated in situ [...]

A Study on Fabrication of Cellulose Nanofibers in Water

Kim K-Y, Jeong W.-Y., Lim D.-Y., Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, KR

Cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) were successfully fabricated by fibrillation of wood pulp cellulose into submicron and/or nanoscale nanofibers with a microfluidizer in water solution. CNFs have the great potential as reinforcing materials for polymeric composite materials. [...]

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