MEMS & NEMS Devices, Modeling & Applications – Page 23

Nanochip – Ultra-High Data Density MEMS Memory Device

Adams D., Belov N., Chou T-K., Heck J., Kim B., Knight G., Ma Q., Rao V., Tchelepi G., Nanochip, Inc., US

Nanochip developed a conceptual prototype of a probe storage device (nanochip). The device employs a ferroelectric non-volatile memory, which permits robust write, non-destructive read and simple data overwriting operations. Read-write operations require low power and [...]

Wireless sensor networks for activity monitoring in safety critical applications

Rednic R., Gaura E.I., Brusey J., Coventry University, UK

The ability to monitor posture is essential to many application areas, including virtual reality, health, and sports applications. The work here focuses on the use of postural monitoring monitoring in safety critical missions such as [...]

Priority Based Message Transmission over Unreliable Wireless Links for Safety Critical Monitoring Applications

Fei X., Kemp J., Gaura E.I., Brusey J., Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK

In our prior work, a Body Sensor Network (BSN) system aimed at increasing safety of bomb disposal operatives during missions has been developed. Although this system served well the application at hand in terms of [...]

Wireless sensor networks for space applications

Benhaddou D., University of Houston, US

The application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) into time-sensitive applications, such as remote healthcare, fire tracking and industrial automation, demands support for emergency services with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) bounds. In particular, the continuous [...]

Wireless Sensor Networks for Aerospace Applications- Thermal Monitoring for a Gas Turbine Engine

Goldsmith D., Gaura E., Brusey J., Shuttleworth J., Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK

The paper here reports on the development of a prototype wireless sensor network for thermal monitoring of aircraft gas turbine engines. The prototype acts as a concept demonstrator for the application at hand. Building upon [...]

Wireless MEMS

Detecting CH4 and CO Gases Using Micro-Structural Doping Compound Oxide Films on Si-Substrates

Li Y.F., Ma S.Y., Kish L.B., Ding J.-J., Northwest Normal University, US

Fluctuation-enhanced chemical sensing with commercial gas sensors have already been studied[1-4]. Fig. 1 shows one of the typical fluctuation-enhanced signals of PdxWO3 film sensor. The gas-sensing films used in commercial gas sensors are deposited on [...]

Microfluidic Platforms with Micro- and Nanopore Membranes and in situ Formation of Lipid Bilayer in the Microfluidic Platform

Choi J., Kim N., Park S., Louisiana State University, US

Artificial lipid bilayer membranes have come into the spotlight as topics of fundamental properties of biomaterials, targets for drug discovery and safety screening, and analytic platforms for characterization and orientation discrimination of polynucleotide molecules. Lipid [...]

A Novel Virtual Button User Interface for Determining the Characteristics of an Impulse Input Based on MEMS Inertial Sensors

Zwart A., Effa D., Nieva P., Lancaster-Larocque S., University of Waterloo, CA

This paper introduces a novel application of MEMS accelerometer in consumer electronics device for a ‘Virtual Button’ Technology. MEMS based accelerometers is designed in order to measure low-g acceleration to sense tapping motion on the [...]

Energy Conversion according to Impact loading on Piezoelectric material

Lee J., Kim T., Choi B., Sogang University, KR

Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material has been one of the hottest interests in powering wireless sensor nodes without maintenance and replacement of wired or battery power system in ubiquitous era. Unlike most of the previous [...]