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Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanotube Suspensions and Composites

Foygel M., Morris R.D., Anez D., French S., Sobolev V., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, US

A Monte Carlo simulation code has been developed aimed at finding a critical fractional volume of the nanotubes suspended in a low thermo-or electro-conductive medium. Over more than two orders of magnitude, the critical fractional [...]

Numerical Simulation of Microfluidic Flow Using a Combination of Micro and Macro Computational Techniques: Scaling Issues

Mautner T., SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, US

Recent literature has demonstrated the possibilities of using configurable surfaces to enhance the flow of fluids in MEMS devices. Not only are surface properties important in fluid delivery, the inherent problems of mixing by diffusion [...]

Simulation Studies of Channels in Biological Membranes

Henderson D., Busath D.D., Rowley R.L., Crozier P.S., Boda D., Brigham Young University, US

The results of our recent studies of the selectivity of a calcium channel by means of a Monte Carlo simulation and of the conductance of ions in a model channel by means of a molecular [...]

Three-Dimensional Single Step Flow Sheathing in Micro Cell Sorters

Goranovic G., Perch-Nielsen I., Larsen U.D., Wolff A., Kutter J., Telleman P., Bio/Chemical MicroSystems, DK

We present a novel microstructure that enables 3 dimensional hydrodynamic focusing of cells in a pressure driven micro cell sorter. This so-called "chimney" structure for single step coaxial sheathing was designed and optimized through simulation, [...]

Investigation of the Dynamics of Microdevices – As a Design Tool

Seter D.J., Degani O., Kaldor S., Scher E., Nemirovsky Y., RAFAEL Microsystems Group, IL

When designing microaccelerometers, microgyroscopes and other microdevices, there is a strong need for dynamic understanding in system level. Thus, dynamic simulation is a part of many CAD tools for MEMS [1]. In this work, a [...]

SEGS: On-line WWW Etch Simulator

Li G., Hubbard T., Antonsson E.K., Daltech-Dalhousie University, CA

This paper presents an interactive on-line wet etch simulator (SEGS) which predicts the etched shape as a function of time for arbitrary isotropic or anisotropic etchants and any initial mask shape. Using any Javaenabled web [...]