the micro wire electrical discharge machining (micro wire-edm) process is a modern machining process with various applications in manufacturing micro-parts. the recast layer remaining on the machined surfaces is an inevitable complication of this process. this layer can subsequently affect the machined parts performance. to optimize the recast layer in the micro wire-edm of the molybdenum micro...

A microcontroller based control system to drive the Physik Instrumente (PI ) piezoelectric ultrasonic nano-positioning (PUN) stage for a micro-factory has been proposed by the author. The tuning parameters of the PI Line Controller are chosen such that the PUN stage shows optimum step response. The microcontroller i.e. LPC2478R provides the user with the choices of operations on the 3.2” QVGA L...

Highly reproducible manufacturing of organic optical crystals with well-defined geometry and dimension is important to realize industrially relevant all-organic microelectronic nanophotonic components photonic integrated circuits. Here, programmed shape size alteration square-shaped perylene crystal resonators into circular disk rectangular geometries demonstrated using the focused-ion-beam mil...

Metamaterials are engineered materials conceived and designed to achieve very special or even unique physical properties, which depend on the micro nanostructures, more than chemical composition of raw employed for their fabrication. Normally metamaterials made periodic repetitions unit cells Boolean combinations lattices porous building blocks. Metasurfaces quasi-two-dimensional version genera...

A technique for shape-selective directed assembly of anisotropic, deformable, chemically-identical microcomponents onto patterned rigid templates based on shape and size differences is modeled and demonstrated. The assembly method not only controls the selective placement of the components, but also aligns the components with the assembly sites. Unlike the assembly of isotropic (spherical) micr...

Femtosecond laser irradiation followed by chemical etching (FLICE) with hydrogen fluoride (HF) is an emerging technique for the fabrication of directly buried, three-dimensional microfluidic channels in silica. The procedure, as described in literature, consists of irradiating a silica slab followed by chemical etching using hydrogen fluoride. With aqueous HF the etching process is diffusion-li...

The paper describes a comprehensive approach for the modelling and description of technologies available within a European Research Infrastructure consisting of distributed research infrastructures all over Europe. The resulting knowledge management system integrates the partial approaches of several European research activities in this area to a comprehensive description format for technical c...

Micromanufacturing has increased rapidly at scientific, technological and industrial levels. However, this evolution has not been followed by a parallel development of Non Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques. The available techniques are, generally, unable to detect microdefects. In this work, two types of microgeometries were produced by Micro Powder Inj stainless steel AISI316L: specimens fo...