The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

▪ Abstract Soft lithography, a set of techniques for microfabrication, is based on printing and
molding using elastomeric stamps with the patterns of interest in bas-relief. As a technique …

We survey progress over the past 25 years in the development of microscale devices for
pum** fluids. We attempt to provide both a reference for micropump researchers and a …

This paper briefly overviews progress on the development of MEMS-based micropumps and
their applications in drug delivery and other biomedical applications such as micrototal …

Piezoelectric pumps have obtained considerable significance and have become the focus
area of research for biomedicine, fuel supply, liquid cooling, chemistry and precision driving …

Microfluidics has emerged from the MEMS-technology as an important research field and a
promising market. This paper gives an overview on one of the most important microfluidic …

Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) based microfluidic devices have gained
popularity in biomedicine field over the last few years. In this paper, a comprehensive …

If a high and on-going research dynamics is taken as a rejuvenating factor microfluidics can
still be regarded as a truly young discipline, although some microfluidic devices definitely …

This paper briefly reviews recent research and developments of micropump designs with a
particular emphasis on mechanical micropumps and summarizes their applications in …

This paper describes fabrication arid characterization results of piezoelectric micromachined
ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) based on 2-/spl mu/m-thick Pb (Zr/sub 0.53/Ti/sub …