Using Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) to manipulate nanoobjects is an actual challenge for surface scientists. Basic haptic interfaces between the AFM and experimentalists have already been implemented. The multi-sensory renderings (seeing, hearing and feeling) studied from a cognitive point of view increase the efficiency of the actual interfaces. To allow the experimentalist to feel and touch ...

Digital microfluidics (DMF) is an emerging liquid-handling technology that enables individual control over droplets on an open array of electrodes. These picoliter- to microliter-sized droplets, each serving as an isolated vessel for chemical processes, can be made to move, merge, split, and dispense from reservoirs. Because of its unique advantages, including simple instrumentation, flexible d...

A single shadow driver is written for each device class, implementing the same interface to the operating system that a driver for a real device does. A shadow runs silently alongside each real driver, observing requests, until failure is detected by the OS. This triggers a restart of the real driver, while the shadow temporarily assumes responsibility for spoofing it and handling application r...

Installation work of large inner/outer wall panel glasses increases the labor load and stress of workers and causes the danger of such accidents as falling and crane overturning. To solve this problem, Gil designed the easy handling robot system which is composed of mobile system, 5-DOF manipulator system and HRI (Human-Robot Interface) device included HRC (Human-Robot Cooperation) algorithm. D...

Objectives. The transvascular closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) with self-expanding devices carries the risk of left atrial thrombus formation related to material protruding into the left atrium. Thus, we developed a novel device with flat left atrial disc geometry. We evaluated feasibility, handling, and biocompatibility in a porcine animal model. Methods. Implantation of an Occlutech Figu...

Microand nanomechanical analytical devices for diagnostics require small sample volumes, and stable and efficient clamping of the sensors for optimized bioassays. A fully automated device for the readout of the dynamic and static response of cantilevers in a physiological liquid environment including a sample handling system is presented. The device provides sequential readout of the static and...

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm applicable to the task of device adjustment in smart appliances ensembles. The algorithm requires very little environmental knowledge and is therefore complementary to the commonly applied rule based methods, such as ontologies. In contrast to traditional evolutionary algorithms, the new approach avoids any central processing scheme. Instead, the en...

We report a method enabling intensity-based readout for label-free cellular assays, and realize a reader device with the same footprint as a microtiter plate. For unambiguous resonance intensity measurements in resonance waveguide grating (RWG) sensors, we propose to apply resonances near the substrate cutoff wavelength. This method was validated in bulk refractive index, surface bilayer and G ...

The use of totally implantable venous catheters is necessary for drug and chemotherapy delivery, blood infusion, hemoderivatives, and parenteral nutrition (PN). However, its use is not free from complications.1 Among these, the rupture of the device is a rare and dreaded complication that can result either from improper handling or instrumentation as the inappropriate choice of the insertion si...

A traveling-wave THz photomixer based on a free-space optical-THz phase-matching scheme is proposed. A dc-biased coplanar strip line fabricated on low-temperature-grown GaAs serves as the active area of the device, and is illuminated by two noncollinear laser beams which generate interference fringes that are accompanied by THz waves. The device with the laser-power-handling capability over 300...