The well-known electro-mechanical analogy that equates current, voltage, resistance, inductance and capacitance to force, velocity, damping, spring constant and mass has a shortcoming in that mass can only be used to simulate a capacitor which has one terminal connected to ground. A new model that was previously proposed by the authors that combines a mass with a pulley (MP) is shown to simulat...

In this investigation, micro voltage, temperature and humidity sensors were fabricated and integrated for the first time on a stainless steel foil using micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). These flexible multi-functional micro sensors have the advantages of high temperature resistance, flexibility, smallness, high sensitivity and precision of location. They were embedded in a proton exchan...

The 21st century sees significant breakthroughs in fabricating micro devices in the quest of miniaturising. Most micro parts have been manufactured in the range of less than 1mm. However, they are built based on material that is process dependant, resulting in monolithic parts. For example the Integrated Circuits, Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) are silicon based, and on their own do not...

Biological and medical application of micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) is currently seen as an area of high potential impact. Integration of biology and microtechnology has resulted in the development of a number of platforms for improving biomedical and pharmaceutical technologies. This review provides a general overview of the applications and the opportunities presented by MEMS in med...

The field of microfluidics has seen breath-taking progress since its beginnings in the 1980s and early 1990s. While much of the initial work was a by-product of mainstream micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and silicon based fabrication schemes, soon a specialized research field developed. Over the last decade a strong, highly interdisciplinary microfluidics community emerged with roots in...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PMMA: Poly Methyl Methacrylate; HEMA: Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate; FDA: Food and Drug Administration; BCLA: British Contact Lens Association; ACHIEVE: Adolescent and Child Health Initiative to Encourage Vision Empowerment; UDVA: Uncorrected Distance Visual Activity; IOL: Intraocular Lens; IOP: Intraocular Pressure; MEMS: Micro Electro M...

A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) is a technology that allows obtaining components between 1 to 1000 micrometers (usually 20 micrometers). Its small dimension and, at the same time, the low power consumption, has become the most important features so as to develop a new technology for nano-scale components. Moreover, the fabrication procedures are as simple as a Microstrip line procedure...

In this paper, we study a nonlocal parabolic problem arising in the study of a micro-electro mechanical system. The nonlocal nonlinearity involved is related to an integral over the spatial domain. We first give the structure of stationary solutions. Then we derive the convergence of a global (in time) solution to the maximal solution as the time tends to infinity. Finally, we provide some quen...

We report a new approach for efficient computation of capacitance in multiconductor systems embedded in homogeneous or multiple dielectric media. The technique employs exponential expansion of the Green's function for evaluation of the three-dimensional potential and its gradient, enabling rapid and accurate extraction of interconnect capacitance in VLSI and large-area amorphous silicon electro...