Sentences with word «microfabrication»

MFCs are the result of using microfabrication techniques to build microchannel («micropipe») networks.

«We fabricated an array of hollow microprobes with designed diameters, heights, and numbers from a silicon substrate using microfabrication techniques.

New investigators with interest in the biophysics of nuclear organization and functions, the biophysics of multicellular systems, or in the use of microfabrication technologies in biological research are especially welcome.

Building on over 30 years of combined experience in atomic force microscopy, our proprietary microfabrication processes enable us to manufacture AFM probes with the tightest dimensional tolerances in the market at present.

That type of sensor consists of solid spheres and is not compatible with microfabrication methods, but recently Tadigadapa and his team developed an innovative way to grow on - chip glass microspherical shells with incredible sensitivities that potentially can be used for motion, temperature, pressure or biochemical sensing.

Through use of microfabrication technology, Cho and colleagues built the sensor using a conductive polymer called PEDOT: PSS for the capacitors, which is flexibile compared to brittle metallic conductive materials.

The researchers are now working on developing the material in the USC microfabrication facility and will likely benefit from the new capabilities in the recently - dedicated John D. O'Brien Nanofabrication Laboratory in the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

Breakthroughs in microfabrication, electromagnetic optics, as well as in high - speed computers that can adjust for aberrations and analyze images, have so improved accuracy that STEM imaging is now approaching the fundamental limits of vision set by quantum mechanics.

Performing a calibration step prior to microfabrication allowed them to digitally focus and scan laser light through the ultra-thin optical fiber without moving the fiber.

In addition, Micralyne operates a world - leading microfabrication foundry for MFCs while providing a line of instruments that allows for the operation of these MFCs with NB protocols.

I became interested in BME while working at CTF Systems, a company that uses quantum nanoelectronic devices manufactured with conventional microfabrication techniques to manufacture medical imaging (MEG) systems.

Better software, massive computational resources, and increasingly precise microfabrication techniques were making it possible to fabricate materials out of minuscule building blocks specifically engineered to exploit the different sorts of physics that emerge on very small scales.

X-ray phase contrast imaging could be used to inspect microfabrication packaging, integrated circuits or micro-electro-mechanical components and could be used to study ceramics, polymers, chemicals or explosives.

Using special microfabrication techniques, Ziaie created a miniaturized wireless pressure sensor and combined it with a Guyton - like capsule so that it could generate interstitial pressure readings without the use of a needle and that could be read remotely.

The trick to getting the size down, says project leader John Kitching of NIST, was combining numerous microfabrication tricks, including a novel method for trapping cesium atoms in tiny glass cells, a technique developed by his collaborators, Svenja Knappe and Li - Anne Liew, also at NIST.

So, in the context of developing unconventional microfabrication techniques, most efforts have focused on the interfacial instabilities of very thin films.

The combination of the named advantageousse are highly desirable features of the new technique are highly desirable because all common microfabrication technologies — including photolithography, printing, or embossing — fail to meet at least one of these criteria.

These sorts of deformations inspired a group of researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt, in Germany, to explore whether they could be used to improve and streamline microfabrication processes.

We've been working on microfabrication, almost nanofabrication, to create networks of vessels.

He is the inventor or co-inventor of over 60 patents covering a wide range of technologies including microfabrication, molecular and cellular sensors, and cellular imaging.

Their robotic centipede — built through microfabrication techniques similar to those used for making computer chips — is just over an inch long and about a third as wide, weighing less than two - hundredths of an ounce.

Researchers leveraged microfabrication and microfluidic techniques to achieve a system with three vertically stacked fluidic microcompartments separated by nanoporous membranes.

We are looking for an interdisciplinary - minded pre-doc scientist who will explore 3D printing (and other microfabrication techniques) with soft biomaterials to build implants for the nervous system.

Ilie and her team used graphene as their material of choice, thanks to its high mechanical strength, high conductivity, low capacitance, large surface area and the fact that it can be patterned and integrated into a device using standard microfabrication techniques.

«With further development our technique could enable endoscopic microfabrication tools that would be valuable during surgery,» says research team leader Paul Delrot, from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Piotr has been involved with AFM and various microfabrication technologies since 2012.

The Nuclear Process Science Initiative (NPSI), a PNNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) investment, was used to develop the materials synthesis and microfabrication capability using a focused ion beam.

Allbritton is an expert at microfabrication and microengineering.

Fabricated high surface area 3D carbon microstructures by microfabrication process - carbon - microelectromechanical systems (C - MEMS) technique.

Enabled new on site capabilities such as wet only resist / polymeric and residue cleans, low stress metal sputter deposition process, low stress chemical vapor deposition process, spin on polymer planarization techniques, surface enhancement for improved adhesion, surface passivation for improved structural stability during microfabrication.

Using microfabrication methods, AFM cantilevers are modified to mount directionally oriented crystals tips.

He has led industrial R&D programmes in microfabrication, microfluidics and nanotechnology and is an inventor on about 80 patents.

The consumer electronics revolution was not brought about so much by the fact that microfabrication technologies allowed the formation of microscale transistors as that they allowed the cost - effective integration of millions of transistors in a functioning unit (e.g., a Pentium processor).

In their experiments, Chen and his colleagues used microfabrication to vary the size of the aluminum dots, and measured the decay of a pulsed laser reflected from the material — an indirect measure of the heat propagation in the material.

The need for neural probe arrays that are compact, reliable and deliver high performance has prompted researchers to use microfabrication techniques to manufacture probe arrays.

The lesson that we had learned from the microfabrication semiconductor industry was you needed to come up with a way to put them essentially in a two - dimensional plane and then scale down the feature size.

The resonator and detector were electrically connected, which added steps to the microfabrication process.

These microfabrication technologies are now poised to perform a similar revolution with NB — the MFCs provide an interface between the macroscopic scale and the nanoscale.

And just as age - old brewing technology has benefited current molecular biology techniques using yeast, microfabrication technologies that were originally developed for the microelectronics industry now allow a wide range of microsystems to be constructed that are compatible with nanobiotechnologies.

Schurink's thesis is titled «Microfabrication and microfluidics for 3D brain - on - chip», his defence is June 23 at the University of Twente.

Richards - Kortum's work brings together nanotechnology, molecular imaging, and microfabrication to address global health challenges by developing low - cost medical technologies — such as a portable microendoscope to diagnose and treat cervical cancer — for use on the ground in low - resource settings around the world.

The new test utilizes the advancements in consumer electronics and microfabrication.

«I use microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques to tackle problems that are challenging for biologists or clinicians to address.»

Sitti is trying to mimic that feature using hair from geckos» feet on his robots» legs; microfabrication of synthetic hairs may come later.

Co-senior author Rohit Jindal, Ph.D., of MGH - CEM, adds, «The microfabrication methods applied in this study are readily amenable to designing a device in which multiple two - chamber wells could be operated at the same time, dramatically increasing processing speed, that would be no larger than a standard, 96 - well culture plate.»

While concepts explored thus far have required complex designs and microfabrication methods, the μTUM is produced with standard photolithography techniques used in the semiconductor industry.

Using microfabrication techniques, the researchers constructed tubes with diameters of about 30 micrometers and lengths up to 10 centimeters.

Seeing his microfabrication endeavours yielding new science led James to found NuNano, in order to bring novel AFM probes to the wider scientific community.