Batteries for small-scale robotics

M Zhu, OG Schmidt - MRS Bulletin, 2024 - Springer
The advent of small-scale robots holds immense potential for revolutionizing various
industries, particularly in the domains of surgery and operations within confined spaces that …

Engineering stress in thin films: An innovative pathway toward 3D micro and nanosystems

TA Truong, TK Nguyen, H Zhao, NK Nguyen, T Dinh… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Transformation of conventional 2D platforms into unusual 3D configurations provides
exciting opportunities for sensors, electronics, optical devices, and biological systems …

On‐chip batteries for dust‐sized computers

Y Li, M Zhu, VK Bandari… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in microelectronics have enabled the use of miniaturized computers for
autonomous intelligence at the size of a dust particle less than one square millimeter across …

Laser‐Guided Self‐Assembly of Thin Films into Micro‐Rolls

Y Chen, M Tan, R Yang, CKW Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced manufacturing techniques offer tremendous potential in electronics, photonics,
and biomedicine. Self‐assembly is a powerful strategy for creating three‐dimensional (3D) …

Self-rolled-up aluminum nitride-based 3D architectures enabled by record-high differential stress

A Khandelwal, Z Ren, S Namiki, Z Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aluminum nitride (AlN) continues to kindle considerable interest in various
microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-related fields because of its superior optical …

3D-structured photodetectors based on 2D materials

Y Li, D Chen, X Tang, L Kong, L Li, T Deng - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The progressive reduction in feature size presents significant challenges such as crosstalk,
heat dissipation, and high-power consumption, which impede the advancement of Moore's …

Wafer‐Scale High‐Quality Microtubular Devices Fabricated via Dry‐Etching for Optical and Microelectronic Applications

CN Saggau, F Gabler, DD Karnaushenko… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanical strain formed at the interfaces of thin films has been widely applied to self‐
assemble 3D microarchitectures. Among them, rolled‐up microtubes possess a unique 3D …

Versatile rolling origami to fabricate functional and smart materials

B Xu, X Lin, Y Mei - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2020 - cell.com
Fabrication methods inspired by origami are of great potential in 3D micro-/nanostructure
construction. Typically, it exploits the bending of planar nanomembranes, including both …

Chemical etching strategy to prepare microtubes of a hybrid organic cuprous halide

SY Xu, JR Yang, YN Wu, H Lin, Y Chai, JW Lin… - …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, we synthesized layered crystals of bis (μ2-chlor)-tris (triphenylphosphine)-di-
copper (I)(CTC) and bis (μ2-bromo)-tris (triphenylphosphine)-di-copper (I)(BTC) via …

Rolled-up quantum wells composed of nanolayered InGaAs/GaAs heterostructures as optical materials for quantum information technology

L N. Rodrigues, D Scolfaro… - ACS applied nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strain-based band structure engineering is a powerful tool to tune the optical and electronic
properties of semiconductor nanostructures. We show that we can tune the band structure of …