The interest of microelectronic fluidic arrays for biomedical applications, like DNA determination, is rapidly increasing. In order to evaluate these systems in terms of required Design-for-Test structures, fault simulations in both fluidic and electronic domains are necessary. VHDL-AMS can be used successfully in this case. This paper shows a highly testable architecture of a DNA Bio-Sensing a...

(paper pages 133-156) zagros active fold-thrust belt lies on the northern margin of the arabian continental crust it is a young fold-thrust mountain belt currently shortening, thickening and uplifting as a result of the collision of the arabian and iranian plates. rethickening of crust during collisional orogenies could have been carried out by reversal of fault motion along the mesozoic normal...

We present and demonstrate a novel fabrication method to integrate metallic nanostructures into fluidic systems, using nanoimprint lithography and lift-off on a compositional resist stack, which consists of multi-layers of SiO(2) and polymer patterned from different fabrication steps. The lift-off of the stack allows the final nano-features precisely aligned in the proper locations inside fluid...

Fluidic optics is a new class of optical system with real-time tunability and reconfigurability enabled by the introduction of fluidic components into the optical path. We describe the design, fabrication, operation of a number of fluidic optical systems, and focus on three devices – liquidcore/liquid-cladding (L) waveguides, microfluidic dye lasers, and diffraction gratings based on flowing, c...

This work focuses on studying the effect of the flow conditions and the geometric variation of the microcantilever s supporting system on the microcantilever detection capabilities within a fluidic cell for various pertinent parameters. Such parameters include Reynolds number, height of the fluidic cell, surface reaction constant, and the Schmidt number. The results of this investigation show t...

INTRODUCTION A smooth driving style that reduces the unnecessary consumption of gasoline and emission of exhaust gases by avoiding rapid acceleration and sudden braking has been recommended in recent years as a response to the growing severity of global environmental problems. Manufacturers of the latest environmental vehicles are also taking the initiative Makoto Yamakado, Dr. Eng. Junya Takah...

The driving range of electric vehicles (EVs) is still an important factor restricting their development. Although the rising battery energy density has reached a bottleneck, which key constraint, drive management strategy also significant effect and can improve EVs, since wheel traction torque control directly optimize consumption EVs. In order to comprehensively analyze current research status...

We present a laterally emitting, coupled cavity micro fluidic dye ring laser, suitable for integration into lab-on-a-chip micro systems. The micro-fluidic laser has been successfully designed, fabricated, characterized and modelled. The resonator is formed by a micro-fluidic channel bounded by two isosceles triangle mirrors. The micro-fluidic laser structure is defined using photo lithography i...