Journal of Micro and Nano: Recent submissions
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Laser Energized Plasmonics for Nanopatterning Medical Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A scalable, prototype plasmonic nanomanufacturing system was designed, built, and tested for patterning nanostructures on the surfaces of drugeluting stents (DES), the objective being to prevent the latestent thrombosis ... -
Microfabricated Instrumented Composite Stamps for Transfer Printing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Transfer printing is an emerging process that enables microand nanoscale heterogeneous materials integration for applications such as flexible displays, biocompatible sensors, stretchable electronics, and others. It transfers ... -
Smooth Surface Fabrication Based on Controlled Meniscus and Cure Depth in Microstereolithography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In the layerbased additive manufacturing (AM) processes, a threedimensional (3D) model is converted into a set of twodimensional (2D) layers. Due to such conversion, one of the major problems in the layerbased AM processes ... -
Optimization of Spiral Contours for Pulsed Laser Micromachining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this work, both qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches were used to optimize the spiral contouring technique for complete continuous micromachining of targets. During laser ablation, spiral contours on the ... -
High Speed Fabrication of Microchannels Using Line Based Laser Induced Plasma Micromachining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Microtexturing of surfaces has various applications that often involve texturing over large (macroscale) areas with high precision and resolution. This demands scalability and speed of texturing while retaining feature ... -
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Metallic Dot Agglomeration Induced by Thermal Dewetting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The authors previously developed a new fabrication method for a metal nanodot array, by combination of nanogroove grid patterning and thermal dewetting of metal deposited on a substrate. However, a comprehensive understanding ... -
Warpage Characterization of Microchannels Fabricated by Injection Molding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Massproduction of microfluidic devices is important for biomedical applications in which disposable devices are widely used. Injection molding is a wellknown process for the production of devices on a mass scale at lowcost. ... -
A Study on Micromixing Utilizing Marangoni Effect Induced on Gas–Liquid Free Interfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Traditionally, micromixing has been thought to be governed by molecular diffusion. However, the authors consider that advection is important in the mixing enhancement and applicable to micromixing devices in many industrial ... -
Microtexture Generation Using Controlled Chatter Machining in Ultraprecision Diamond Turning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper describes a new method of microtexture generation in precision machining through selfexcited vibrations of a diamond cutting tool. Conventionally, a cutting tool vibration or chatter is detrimental to the quality ... -
Evolution of Nanoparticle Deposits Printed Using Electrospray
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In an electrospray, large electric potentials are used to generate a spray of highly charged droplets. Colloidal dispersions, consisting of nanoparticles in a volatile solvent, can be atomized using electrospray. Printing ... -
Influence of Process Errors on the Tool Load in Microblanking of Thin Metal Foils With Silicon Punches
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The trend toward miniaturization of metallic microparts results in the need of highprecision production methods. Major challenges are, for example, downsizing of tools and adequate positioning accuracy within blanking. ... -
Optothermal Modeling of Plasmonic Nanofocusing Structures With Nonlocal Optical Response and Ballistic Heat Transport
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Nanoscale optical energy focusing using plasmonic structures is crucial for many applications, such as imaging and lithography. Thermal management for these nanostructures is of great importance to maintain their reliabilities ... -
A Novel Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing Technique for Fabricating Laminated Polymer Nanocomposite Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The objective of this research is to develop a novel, multimaterial additive manufacturing technique for fabricating laminated polymer nanocomposite structures that have characteristic lengthscales in the tens of millimeters ... -
Effects of Different Cavity Geometries on Machining Performance in Micro Electrical Discharge Milling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Low energyshort pulsed electric discharge coupled with precise movement of circular electrode in microelectrical dischargemilling (خ¼EDMmilling) enables generation of threedimensional (3D) cavities in the order of few tens ... -
Analysis of Micro/Mesoscale Sheet Forming Process by Strain Gradient Plasticity and Its Characterization of Tool Feature Size Effects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Conventional material models cannot describe material behaviors precisely in micro/mesoscale due to the size/scale effects. In micro/mesoscale forming process, the reaction force, localized stress concentration, and ... -
A Low Cost and High Resolution Micromachine Tool With Toggle Based Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The products of 3C, bioscience, medical industry, and aerospace industry are becoming smaller and smaller. The components of the products are made of various materials with complex 3D shapes requiring high accuracy in their ... -
Scalable Fabrication of Low Elastic Modulus Polymeric Nanocarriers With Controlled Shapes for Diagnostics and Drug Delivery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A new process, decoupled functional imprint lithography (DFIL), is presented for fabricating low elastic modulus polymeric nanocarriers possessing Young's modulus of bulk material as low as sub1 MPa. This method is ... -
Surface Micropatterning of Pure Titanium for Biomedical Applications Via High Energy Pulse Laser Peening
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Pure titanium is an ideal material for biomedical implant applications for its superior biocompatibility, but it lacks of the mechanical strength required in these applications compared with titanium alloys. This research ... -
Bubble Formation Modeling During Laser Direct Writing of Glycerol Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Laser direct writing, a noncontact modified laserinduced forward transfer (LIFT) technique, has emerged as a promising technology for various applications from microelectronics printing to biofabrication. For it to be a ... -
Electrospray Ionization of Polymers: Evaporation, Drop Fission, and Deposited Particle Morphology1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The fundamental challenge of nanomanufacturing is to create, control, and place immense quantities of nanoscale objects controllably over large surface areas. Electrospray ionization (ESI) has the potential to address this ...