Plasmon resonance of gold nanorods for all-optical drawing of liquid droplets

M De Angelis, P Matteini, F Ratto, R Pini… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We present a laser-assisted system for dispensing liquid micro-droplets by near infrared
illumination of a pyroelectric crystal functionalized with gold nanorods embedded into …

Fabrication and test of polymeric microaxicons

F Merola, S Coppola, V Vespini, S Grilli… - Micro-Optics …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A digital holographic characterization of Bessel beams produced by polymeric microaxicons
is reported. Both intensity and phase of the beam can be numerically reconstructed in …

Pyro-electrification of polymer membranes for cell patterning

R Rega, O Gennari, L Mecozzia, S Grilli… - AIP Conference …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
In the recent years, much attention has been devoted to the possibility of charging polymer-
based materials, due to their potential in developing large-scale and inexpensive flexible …

Optical induction of Bessel-like lattices in methyl-red doped liquid crystal cells

P Mantashyan, R Drampyan, J Beeckman… - Optics …, 2015 - Elsevier
The optical induction of annular photonic lattices by a traveling Bessel beam has been
investigated in Methyl-red (MR) doped nematic liquid crystal (LC). Non-diffracting Bessel …

A method for measuring the base angle of axicon lens based on chromatic dispersion

Y Zhang, A Zeng, Y Wang, H Huang - Optics Communications, 2015 - Elsevier
A method for measuring the base angle of axicon lens is presented. This method utilizes two
coaxial laser beams with different wavelengths. When the two laser beams passing through …

Facile Fabrication of Electrohydrodynamic Micro‐/Nanostructures with High Aspect Ratio of a Conducting Polymer for Large‐Scale Superhydrophilic …

G Lv, Y Liu, J Shao, H Tian, D Yu - … Materials and Engineering, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This communication describes a straightforward, cost‐effective, and contactless lithography
technique, electrohydrodynamic patterning, for fabricating the high‐aspect‐ratio micro …

Capillary breakup of discontinuously rate thickening suspensions

PJ Zimoch, GH McKinley, AE Hosoi - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Using discontinuously rate thickening suspensions (DRTS) as a model system, we show that
beads-on-a-string morphologies can arise as a result of external viscous drag acting during …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid Design and Analysis of Microtube Pneumatic Actuators Using Line-Segment and Multi-Segment Euler–Bernoulli Beam Models

M Ji, Q Li, IH Cho, J Kim - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Soft material-based pneumatic microtube actuators are attracting intense interest, since their
bending motion is potentially useful for the safe manipulation of delicate biological objects …

Exploring pulse-voltage-triggered optically induced electrohydrodynamic instability for femtolitre droplet generation

F Wang, F Fei, L Liu, H Yu, P Yu, Y Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We present a multipoint “virtual dispenser” to draw femtolitre droplets from a dielectric fluidic
thin film using pulse-voltage-triggered optically induced electrohydrodynamic instability …

Manipulation of Nematic Liquid Crystal Microdroplets by Pyroelectric Effect

F Merola, S Grilli, S Coppola, V Vespini… - … Crystals and Liquid …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We present experimental results concerning liquid crystals microdroplets behavior onto
functionalized lithium niobate substrates covered with Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) …