MEMS mirrors for LiDAR: A review

D Wang, C Watkins, H Xie - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has been drawing extensive attention
both in academia and industry because of the increasing demand for autonomous vehicles …

Printing, folding and assembly methods for forming 3D mesostructures in advanced materials

Y Zhang, F Zhang, Z Yan, Q Ma, X Li, Y Huang… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
A rapidly expanding area of research in materials science involves the development of
routes to complex 3D structures with feature sizes in the mesoscopic range (that is, between …

A mechanically driven form of Kirigami as a route to 3D mesostructures in micro/nanomembranes

Y Zhang, Z Yan, K Nan, D Xiao, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Assembly of 3D micro/nanostructures in advanced functional materials has important
implications across broad areas of technology. Existing approaches are compatible …

MEMS laser scanners: a review

STS Holmström, U Baran, H Urey - Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Laser scanners have been an integral part of MEMS research for more than three decades.
During the last decade, miniaturized projection displays and various medical-imaging …

Mechanical assembly of complex, 3D mesostructures from releasable multilayers of advanced materials

Z Yan, F Zhang, F Liu, M Han, D Ou, Y Liu, Q Lin… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Capabilities for assembly of three-dimensional (3D) micro/nanostructures in advanced
materials have important implications across a broad range of application areas, reaching …

A review of phased array steering for narrow-band electrooptical systems

PF McManamon, PJ Bos, MJ Escuti… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonmechanical steering of optical beams will enable revolutionary systems with random
access pointing, similar to microwave radar phased arrays. An early approach was …

Biomimetic and biologically compliant soft architectures via 3D and 4D assembly methods: a perspective

JM Taylor, H Luan, JA Lewis, JA Rogers… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in soft material chemistry and enabling methods of 3D and 4D fabrication—
emerging programmable material designs and associated assembly methods for the …

Electro-optic and acousto-optic laser beam scanners

G Römer, P Bechtold - Physics procedia, 2014 - Elsevier
Optical solid state deflectors rely on the electro-optical or acousto-optic effect. These Electro-
Optical Deflectors (EODs) and Acousto-Optical Deflectors (AODs) do not contain moving …

Optical MEMS for lightwave communication

MC Wu, O Solgaard, JE Ford - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The intensive investment in optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in the last
decade has led to many successful components that satisfy the requirements of lightwave …

Fast-scanning two-photon fluorescence imaging based on a microelectromechanical systems two-dimensional scanning mirror

W Piyawattanametha, RPJ Barretto, TH Ko… - Optics letters, 2006 - opg.optica.org
Towards overcoming the size limitations of conventional two-photon fluorescence
microscopy, we introduce two-photon imaging based on microelectromechanical systems …