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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"Microsystems"”.
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Materials selection for microsystems actuators
The recent developments of novel thin film materials and their associated processes have marked the onset of change in the design philosophy of Micro-Electro- Mechanical Systems (MEMS) from process centric to performance centric. This presents an opportunity to improve the performance of MEMS …
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Elastomeric microsystems fabricated using transfer printing
… towards the fabrication of unusual elastomeric microsystems for sensing, actuation, energy harvesting and robotic micromanipulation. Conventionally, microsystems are constructed by rigid materials such as semiconductors, metals, and dielectric materials with a set of well-established processing …
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A Microsystems Approach for Drug Assessment
Cancer metastasis, the departure of cancer cells from the primary tumors and their spread to distant sites, is responsible for 90% of cancer related deaths. Thus, understanding the initial process which leads to cancer metastasis in the later stage and stopping the spread in the initial stage deems …
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A modular approach to high throughput microsystems
A modular high throughput microsystem was developed using microfabrication technology and nucleic acid analysis. The purpose of developing this microsystem is to identify acute infectious disease and prevent contagious outbreak in a matter of time. This microsystem included three major components, …
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Multiphase flow and control of fluid path in microsystems
Miniaturized chemical-systems are expected to have advantages of handling, portability, cost, speed, reproducibility and safety. Control of fluid path in small channels between processes in a chemical/biological network is crucial for connecting process elements. We show complete separation of …
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Sun Microsystems & a strategic analysis of the workstation industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1988.
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Microsystems platforms for array-based single-cell biological assays
… avenues for tracking individual cell behaviors. Microsystems-based initiatives16-28 are beginning to aid this investigative shortcoming by offering a variety of strategies for handling individual cells. Such efforts, may ultimately serve studies of cross-population heterogeneity29-33, an effect …
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Bioimpedance spectroscopy of breast cancer cells: A microsystems approach
Bioimpedance presents a versatile, label-free means of monitoring biological cells and their responses to physical, chemical and biological stimuli. Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer among women in the United States. Although significant progress has been made in diagnosis and …
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Selective Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells in Antibody-Functionalized Microsystems
Attachment of circulating tumor cells in microfluidic devices functionalized with proper antibodies was studied. Under static experimental conditions, microchambers were utilized to study the parameters such as cell suspension concentration, incubation time or ambient temperature that may affect …
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A Silicate-Based Packaging Material for 3-D Heterogeneous Integration of Microsystems
3D heterogeneous integration (HI) and wafer-level packaging (WLP) represent the cutting edge of microelectronics design and fabrication. However, the current limitations of microelectronics packaging materials inhibit the widespread implementation of these processes, which presents an opportunity …
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Micro & nano scale mechanical testing and assembly with applications to metal based microsystems
Metal-based high-aspect-ratio microscale structures (HARMS) are fundamental building blocks for functional metallic micro devices. This dissertation focuses on addressing several problems in fabrication and assembly of metal based microchannel devices. First, the materials’ responses to mechanical …
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Boundary conditioning concept applied to the synthesis of microsystems using fuzzy logic approach
The burgeoning field of MicroSystems Technology (MST) has a tremendous potential for sensing and actuation of industrial systems in almost every field of human interest. This thesis proposes a synthesis of microsystems in order to explore the advantage of miniaturization by developing a technology …
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OpenSPARC : how giving away CMT chip hardware implementations creates value for Sun microsystems
This thesis uses systems thinking and system dynamics modeling to explore how open source communities such as OpenSPARC can lead to enhancement of the performance of Sun's multithreaded systems and thereby increase its market share by increasing its share of the CMT ecosystem, and the share that …
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Rheological characterisation of solder pastes and isotropic conductive adhesives (ICAs) for microsystems assembly technology
… characterisation of novel pastes used in Microsystems assembly applications is divided into four main parts. The first part concerns the study of the effect of wall slip on paste viscosity measurement. For this study, a novel technique was developed for flow visualisation experiments using …
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Building integrated cell-based microsystems : fabrication methodologies, metrology tools and impact on cellular physiology
… of complex, integrated biological microsystems. These tools involve - (1) the implementation and characterization of a new material system for biological microsystems, and its application to the design of a single-bioparticle trap, (2) the creation of a lipid vesicle-based metrology …
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Reduced order modelling and numerical optimisation approach to reliability analysis of microsystems and power modules
The principal aim of this PhD program is the development of an optimisation and risk based methodology for reliability and robustness predictions of packaged electronic components. Reliability based design optimisation involves the integration of reduced order modelling, risk analysis and …
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Integrated lithium niobate photonic and acoustic microsystems for advanced optical communication and RF sensing applications
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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