Journal of Micro and Nano: Recent submissions
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Novel Manufacturing Route for Scale Up Production of Terahertz Technology Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The advances in the Terahertz (THz) technology drive the needs for the design and manufacture of waveguide devices that integrate complex threedimensional (3D) miniaturized components with mesoand microscale functional ... -
Manipulation of Water Jet Trajectory by a Nonuniform Electric Field in Water Jet Material Processing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In spite of its applications in macromanufacturing processes, water jet processing has not been extensively applied to the field of micromanufacturing owing to its poor tolerance and lack of effective control of the jet ... -
Micro Flat End Milling Simulation Model With Instantaneous Plowing Area Prediction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)There is an increasing demand for product miniaturization and parts with features as low as few microns. Micromilling is one of the promising methods to fabricate miniature parts in a wide range of sectors including ... -
Vacuum Venting Enhances the Replication of Nano/Microfeatures in Micro Injection Molding Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Vacuum venting is a method proposed to improve feature replication in microparts that are fabricated using microinjection molding (MIM). A qualitative and quantitative study has been carried out to investigate the effect ... -
Design and Fabrication of a Polymeric Microfilter for Medical Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper reports on design, fabrication, and characterization of a microfilter to be used in biomedical applications. The microfilter, with mesh of 80 خ¼m, is fabricated by microinjection molding process in polymeric ... -
Gate Design in Injection Molding of Microfluidic Components Using Process Simulations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Just as in conventional injection molding of plastics, process simulations are an effective and interesting tool in the area of microinjection molding. They can be applied in order to optimize and assist the design of the ... -
A New Process Combining Micro Electro Discharge Machining Milling and Sinking for Fast Fabrication of Microchannels With Draft Angle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A comparison of the machining performance of microelectrodischarge machining (EDM) milling and sinking is proposed considering the fabrication of microchannels with controlled sloped walls realized in a hardened steel ... -
Electromagnetic Embossing of Optical Microstructures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Electromagnetic forming (EMF) is a highspeed forming process that is already established in the macroworld. Due to its advantages like high deformation rate and cheaper tools, it is introduced to microforming. In this ... -
The Effect of the Electrical Discharge Machining Process on the Material Properties of Nonconductive Ceramics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is widely used to manufacture complex shaped dies, molds and critical parts in conductive materials. With the help of an assisting electrode (AE), EDM process can be used to machine ... -
Model Based Prediction of Plasma Resistance, and Discharge Voltage and Current Waveforms in Micro Electrodischarge Machining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In electrodischarge machining (EDM), the thermal energy causing material removal at the electrodes is given by the electrical energy supplied to the discharge. This electrical energy, also known as the discharge energy, ... -
H2 Mole Fraction Measurements in a Microwave Plasma Using Coherent Anti Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In an effort to provide insights into the thermochemical composition of a microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) reactor, the mole fraction of H2 is measured at various positions in the plasma sheath, at pressures ... -
Fracture Energy Evaluation Using J Integral in Orthogonal Microcutting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Fracture in cutting of ductile as well as brittle materials can be characterized using parameters such as K, G, R, and Jintegral; of these, R has been widely used. To accurately evaluate the contribution of fracture energy ... -
Pulsewise Motion Controlled Stamping for Microtexturing Onto Aluminum Sheet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)High density oxygen plasmaetching was applied to microtexturing onto the diamondlike carbon (DLC) films coated on the dieunit substrates. This molddie unit with microtextured DLC coating was fixed into a cassette die for ... -
A Microresonant Gas Sensor by Micro Electroforming
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The microsensors are mainly made with the single crystal silicon which requires expensive equipments and complicated process. Here, the microelectroforming technology is used to fabricate the microresonant gas sensor. The ... -
Simulation and Experimental Study of Nanosecond Laser Micromachining of Commercially Pure Titanium
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Nanosecond laser machining of titanium has gained increased interest in recent years for a number of potential applications where part functionalities depend on features or surface structures with microscale dimensions. ... -
Controlled Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation for Computer Aided Nanomanufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) is regarded as an efficient tool for rare event simulation and has been applied in simulating bottom–up selfassembly processes of nanomanufacturing. Yet it has limitations to simulate top–down ... -
Atomized Dielectric Spray Based Electric Discharge Machining for Sustainable Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A novel method of using atomized dielectric spray in microelectric discharge machining (EDM) (sprayEDM) to reduce the consumption of dielectric is developed in this study. The atomized dielectric droplets form a moving ... -
Three Dimensional Printing of Nanoscale Powders Using Laser Shockwaves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A new threedimensional (3D) printing process designated as shockwaveinduced freeform technique (SWIFT) is explored for fabricating microparts from nanopowders. SWIFT consists of generating shockwaves using a laser beam, ... -
Finite Element Based Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Nanofiber Suspensions Using Monte Carlo Method1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper presents a computational approach for simulating the motion of nanofibers during fiberfilled composites processing. A finite elementbased Brownian dynamics simulation (BDS) is proposed to solve for the motion ... -
Graphene Oxide Colloidal Suspensions as Cutting Fluids for Micromachining—Part I: Fabrication and Performance Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of graphene oxide platelet (GOP) geometry (i.e., lateral size and thickness) and oxygen functionalization on the cooling and lubrication performance of GOP colloidal ...