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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Micro/Nano Fabrication"”.
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Design, fabrication, and characterization of a compact magnetron sputtering system for micro/nano fabrication
A general rule of thumb for new semiconductor fabrication facilities (fabs) is that revenues from the first year of production must match the capital cost of building the fab itself. With modem fabs routinely exceeding $1 billion to build, this rule serves as a significant barrier to entry for …
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Interfacial physics in meniscus-confined electrodeposition and its applications for fabricating electronic structures
A novel three-dimensional micro-/nano-fabrication method, the meniscus-confined electrodeposition, was developed and studied. It exploits the thermodynamic stability of a microscale or nanoscale liquid meniscus to direct-write pure metallic three-dimensional structures of designed shapes and sizes …
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Electric field based fabrication methods for multi-scale structured surfaces
Control of micro/nano scale surface structures and properties is crucial to developing novel functional materials. From an engineering point of view, the development of scalable and economical micro/nano-fabrication methods has been in high demand. In this dissertation, electrophoretic deposition …
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A piezoelectric translational flow agitator for active air cooling of electronics.
… rapid development of integrated circuits with micro-nano fabrication, the need increases for powerful cooling facilities. Different cooling schemes such as liquid cooling, direct sprays, boiling heat transfer, etc. have been developed to meet the needs of heat removal. Air cooling still has …
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Nano Mechanical Machining Using AFM Probe
… ratio. Given the high market demand for such micro and nano featured components, different manufacturing methods have been developed for their fabrication. The common technologies in micro/nano fabrication are photolithography, electron beam lithography and other semiconductor processing …
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Thin-film evaporation from well-defined silicon micropillar wicks for high-heat-flux thermal management
… of concentrated heat loads in advanced microprocessors, power amplifiers, and concentrated photovoltaics present significant thermal management challenge for defense, space and commercial applications. Liquid to vapor phase-change strategies are promising due to the high latent heat of …
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Optical polarization control in free space and through random media using wavefront shaping
… used in areas such as optical communications, micro/nano fabrication, industrial process control, material characterization, and biomedical imaging. The usefulness of light in these areas depends on the dexterity with which the state of the optical field, defined by the spatio-temporal …
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Advanced transfer printing methods and their applications to functional surfaces
Transfer printing is a method to transfer homogeneous or heterogeneous materials called ‘inks’ from a donor substrate where they are produced to a receiving substrate where they are utilized via a polymeric stamp. Transfer printing inherently promises the heterogeneous material integration to …
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Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on Microelectrodeposition Process
… parts with one or two dimensions in the micron size range. This technique is utilized to coat surfaces with protective films of several micrometers thickness or fabricate standalone microstructures. In this process, an electrochemical reaction occurs on the electrode surface by applying …
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Intentional nonlinearity in the design of dynamic micro/nanomechanical resonators via nanomaterial-integrated fabrication
During the last decade, we have witnessed that micro/nanomechanical resonators have revolutionized fundamental and applied science. For example, nanosensors can be designed to sense physical quantities at the smallest scale, e.g., masses in atomic scale and forces as small as spin or hydrogen …