This paper describes the realization process of small-size electrets by using techniques generally applied in the fabrication of integrated circuits and microsensors. In the first part of the paper, attention is paid to the different electret decay mechanisms and their relative contribution to the overall stability of miniaturized electrets. Then, a process is described by which polymer electre...

A general framework for the development of parsing algorithms in dynamic programming for Linear Indexed Grammars (LIG) is derived from the concept of Logic Push-down Automata (LPDA), an operational device for the construction of parsers for logic grammars. By exploiting several properties of the LIG formalism, we can guarantee both termination and completeness, which is not possible in the gene...

In recent years, a lot of demonstrations of the miniaturized instruments were reported for genomic applications. They provided the advantages of miniaturization, automation, sensitivity, and specificity for the development of point-of-care diagnostics. The aim of this paper is to report on recent developments on miniaturized instruments for genomic applications. Based on the mature development ...

BACKGROUND Antibody-based microarrays are a developing tool for high-throughput proteomics in health and disease. However, in order to enable global proteome profiling, novel miniaturized high-density antibody array formats must be developed. RESULTS In this proof-of-concept study, we have designed a miniaturized planar recombinant (single-chain Fragment variable). antibody array technology p...

This paper reports a miniaturized piezoelectric accelerometer suitable for a small haptic actuator array. The accelerometer is made with zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowire (NW) grown on a copper wafer by a hydrothermal process. The size of the accelerometer is 1.5 × 1.5 mm², thus fitting the 1.8 × 1.8 mm² haptic actuator array cell. The detailed fabrication process of the miniaturized accelerometer is i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We describe a miniaturized lightweight high-refractive-index panretinal contact lens for diagnostic and therapeutic visualization of the peripheral retina. INSTRUMENT DESIGN The miniaturized high-resolution wide-field contact lens includes three optical elements in a light (15 g) and miniaturized (16 mm footplate, 24 mm external aperture, and 21 mm vertical height) ca...

Optotune has developed an Electroactive Polymer Actuator-based solution to move a diffuser and drastically reduce the speckle contrast of Laser beams: the LSR-5-17 (Laser Speckle Reducer). With its integrated miniaturized electronics for HV generation and motion control, the LSR-5-17 provides a compact 27 x 21 x 6mm solution with a simple 5V micro USB interface for power supply. A miniaturized ...

A nonlinear discriminant analysis based approach to feature space dimensionality reduction in noise robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) is proposed. It utilizes a correlation based distance measure instead of the conventional Euclidean distance. The use of this ‘correlation preserving discriminant analysis’ (CPDA) procedure is motivated by evidence suggesting that correlation based cepstr...

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioinspired energy converter which directly converts biomass into electricity through the catalytic activity of a specific species of bacteria. The effect of temperature on a miniaturized microbial fuel cell with Geobacter sulfurreducens dominated mixed inoculum is investigated in this paper for the first time. The miniaturized MFC warrants investigation due to ...