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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"nano-manufacturing"”.
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A risk analysis methodology for micro/nano manufacturing
… process and product developments in micro and nano manufacturing. The risk analysis methodology integrates different computational approaches for process and product analysis, including the reduced order modelling using design of experiments, risk analysis using sampling-based and analytical …
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Design of ultra precision fixtures for nano-manufacturing
… combined with principles and means of Nanomanipulation to fixture components with tens of nanometer accuracy and repeatability. Achieving this level of performance requires addressing three fundamental limitations of precision fixtures; (1) Elimination of stiction via integrated …
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Parallel nano-manufacturing via electro-hydrodynamic jetting from externally-fed emitter arrays
… growth of our ability to engineer at the nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunity to control the world around us in meaningful ways. One particularly exciting development is the production of nanofibers, whose unique morphological properties promise to improve the quality and efficiency …
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Vision based iterative learning control for a roll to roll micro/nano-manufacturing system
Nano and micro-manufacturing has emerged to be an essential component to progress in many areas of science and has huge potential to foster innovation and economic growth. Recent advances in micro/nano-manufacturing have transitioned from batch modes of fabrication on the traditionally rigid …
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Design of nanomanufacturing systems
Over 100 years of manufacturing knowledge and experience are available to a design engineer when considering the integration of a machine tool enabling macro-scale processes (milling, turning, welding, water-jet cutting) into a production or manufacturing line, and this thesis seeks to provide a …
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Substrate dependance, temperature dependance and temperature sensitivity and resolution of doped-silicon microcantilevers
… in data storage, sensing, surface science, and nano-manufacturing. The rst objective seeks to understand the speci c thermal interactions between a heated microcantilever tip and various substrates. The experiments investigate thermal conductance, thermal time constant, and temperature-dependant …
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System Design, Noise Reduction, and Improved Dimension Reconstruction for High Performance Ellipsometry
The advancement in nano-manufacturing and many other industries calls for high-performance metrology and inspection methods. Nano-manufacturing has witnessed shrinking critical dimension and demonstrated mass production capability: the lithography process has reached 5nm node and could potentially …
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Precision coordination and motion control of multiple systems via iterative learning control
… world, many emerging applications ranging from manufacturing to the autonomous vehicle industry require coordination of multiple systems. Traditional approaches for controlling these systems often neglect the underlying coupling in the application. To stay at the forefront of these fields …
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Apprehension of Resistive Characteristics of Plasma Ionized Hybrid Nano Fibrous Silicon
… of challenges with the conventional way of manufacturing nano patterned surfaces. Also, it indicated immense potential of nano structured surface as a sensing surface for numerous applications. Without using any complex and expensive conventional nano manufacturing method, synthesis of …
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Flow-Induced Self Assembly in Micellar Fluids with Applications to Nanomanufacturing
… of micelles with morphology that is ideal for nano-manufacturing applications.
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Enhancing the functionality of photovoltaic and photonic biointerfaces through structuration
… image analysis, optics simulations and nano-manufacturing a new photonic effect is uncovered which is iridescent but surprisingly constant in chroma. In collaboration with plant scientists, it is shown that many flowers have co-evolved disordered surface structuration that generates this …
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Steady and Unsteady Thermo-Strucural Simulation of Thermally Actuated Micro- and Nano-Structures
… provides a thermo-structural simulation for nano-scale and micro-scale structures with pinned and fixed boundary conditions which are either thermally positioned, buckled, or actuated. The study begins with simulating a pinned-pinned beam in micro-scale and nano-scale. The steady state …
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Study and applications of liquid behavior on microtextured solid surfaces
… much to be understood. Recent advances in micro/nano manufacturing have granted researchers an unprecedented ability to control surface texture and properties. This, combined with the fact that surface forces become increasingly important at small scale, makes it an opportune time to focus …
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Surface instabilities and interfacial phenomena for nanomanufacturing at the atomically-thin limit
… but also enables novel opportunities in the nanomanufacture of 2D materials and of their derivative materials systems and devices. Surface instabilities (e.g. wrinkling and buckling) and interfacial phenomena (e.g. delamination) are typically deemed as engineering nuisances and failure modes. …
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Solid state electrochemical processes for nanofabrication
Metallic nanostructures play a defining role in micro and nanotechnology, from interconnects in electronics to electrodes in chemical sensors, batteries, fuel-cells, antennae, plasmonic waveguides in sub-wavelength optics and structural color generation. While the demand for making functional …
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Nano-engineering of Atomically Thin Novel 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures
… profound interest from material science and nanotechnology community, due to its marvelous optical, electrical and magnetic properties. In addition to Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), several new ferroelectric, ferromagnetic (FM), antiferromagnetic (AFM and multiferroic layered …
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Nano-engineering of Atomically Thin Novel 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures
… profound interest from material science and nanotechnology community, due to its marvelous optical, electrical and magnetic properties. In addition to Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), several new ferroelectric, ferromagnetic (FM), antiferromagnetic (AFM and multiferroic layered …
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Design and fabrication of a multipurpose compliant nanopositioning architecture
… low average cost multipurpose compliant nanopositioner architecture with high performance integrated sensing. Customized nanopositioner designs can be created in ~~1 week, for <$1k average device cost even in batch sizes of 1-10, with sensing operating at a demonstrated 59dB full noise …
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Microbubble streaming flows for non-invasive particle manipulation and liquid mixing
… and inter-disciplinary fields, such as micro/nano manufacturing processes, biomedical engineering, lab-on-a-chip diagnostic technology, micro fuel cell, and bio-fluidics. As the length scale shrinks, the synergy of micro-hydrodynamics with various external force fields (capillary forces, …
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Influence of external environment on fluid/ion transport in confined nanoscale systems
"The advancements in micro-nano-manufacturing technology has lead to a significant leap in understanding the nuances of transport phenomenon in nanopore architecture. The large nanopore surface compared to the volume favors a predominant transport of ions. The environment results in a near ideal …