Sacrificial etching is one of the most important process steps in micro-electro-mechanical systems technology, since it enables the generation of free-standing structures. These structures are often the main part of micro-mechanical devices, intended to sense or induce a mechanical movement. The etching process transforms an initial multi-segmented geometry and depends on material properties an...

The potential of high-temperature (>150°C) geothermal systems in crustal fault zones (fault cores and hundreds meters wide networks interconnected fractures the damage zone) is underestimated. Based on numerical models, we show that topography-driven, poroelasticity-driven as well buoyancy-driven forces play a significant role establishment shallow (1–4 km) thermal anomalies zones. We investiga...

Modulating the electric potential on a conducting electrode is presented to generate an optical contrast for scattering microscopy that sensitive both surface charge and local topography. We dub this method Electric-Double-Layer-Modulation microscopy. numerically compute change in ion concentration origin of three experimentally relevant geometries: nanosphere, nanowire, nanohole. In absence pl...

Although the scanning microwave microscope (SMM) is based on atomic force (AFM), SMM differs from AFM by being able to sense subsurface electromagnetic properties of a sample. This makes promising for in-depth nondestructive characterization nanoelectronic structures. However, raw data are convoluted with sample topography, making it especially challenging quantitative nonplanar In this paper, ...