Micro and Smart Devices and Systems

by K J Vinoy (editor)

Design, Development, Fabrication, Packaging, and Testing of MEMS Pressure Sensors for Aerospace applications.- MEMS Piezoresistive Accelerometers.- A Handheld Explosives Detector Based on Amplifying Fluorescent Polymer.- Development of a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Based Bio sensing System.- Design and Development of Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistor and Extended-Gate Field-Effect Transistor Platforms for Chemical and Biological Sensors.- RF MEMS Single-Pole-Multi-Throw switching circuits.- Piezoelectric actuators in helicopter active vibration control.- Design and development of a piezoelectrically actuated micro pump for drug delivery application.- Development and characterization of PZT multi layered stacks for vibration control.- Development of Piezoelectric and Electrostatic RF MEMS devices.- Materials and Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloy Wires for Thermal Actuators.- Processing and Characterization of Shape Memory Films for Microactuators.- Piezoceramic coatings for MEMS and Structural Health Monitoring.- Cost-effective processing of polymers and application to devices.- Chemical synthesis of nanomaterials and structures, including nanostructured thin films, for different applications.- A Study on Hydrophobicity of Silicon and a few Dielectric Materials.-Materials for Embedded Capacitors, Inductors, Non-reciprocal devices and Solid Oxide Fuel cells in Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC).- Smart Materials for Energy Harvesting, Energy Storage and Energy Efficient Solid State Electronic Refrigeration.- Modeling and Vibratory MEMS and Squeeze Film Effects.- Streaming Potential in Micro flows and Nano flows.- A simulation module for microsystems using hybrid finite an overview.- Structural Health Nonlinear Effects in the Prognostic Analysis of Crack Growth in Structural Joints.- Systems and Smart e-textile based Nano sensors for Cardiac Monitoring with Smart Phone and Wireless Mobile Platform.- Polymer based Micro/Nano Cantilever Electro-Mechanical Sensor Systems for Bio/Chemical Sensing Applications.- Smart Materials Technology for Aerospace Applications.- Electronic Circuits for Piezoelectric Resonant Sensors.- A Universal Energy Harvesting Scheme for Operating Low-Power Wireless Sensor Nodes using Multiple Energy Design of Rectennas and Power Management Electronics.- RF MEMS True Time Delay Phase Shifter.- MEMS Sensors for Underwater Applications.

536 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2014