New microproducts need the utilization of a diversity of materials and have complicated
three-dimensional (3D) microstructures with high aspect ratios. To date, many …

This book presents an overview of recent and emerging additive manufacturing (AM)
techniques and their applications. It explains several of the processes developed using …

Bulk metallic glass (BMG) formers are multicomponent alloys that vitrify with remarkable
ease during solidification. Technological interest in these materials has been generated by …

MEMS technology and applications have grown at a tremendous pace, while structural
dimensions have grown smaller and smaller, reaching down even to the molecular level …

Designed for science and engineering students, this text focuses on emerging trends in
processes for fabricating MEMS and NEMS devices. The book reviews different forms of …

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Actuators as Artificial Muscles Yoseph Bar-Cohen California Institute of Technology …

" Chromic phenomena, or those produced by materials which exhibit colour in response to a
chemical or physical stimulus, have increasingly been at the heart of'high-tec'developments …

Polymers have assumed the leading role as substrate materials for microfluidic devices in
recent years. They offer a broad range of material parameters as well as material and …

SU-8 has become the favourite photoresist for high-aspect-ratio (HAR) and three-
dimensional (3D) lithographic patterning due to its excellent coating, planarization and …

Chemical and physical processes driven by multiphoton absorption make possible the
fabrication of complex, 3D structures with feature sizes as small as 100 nm. Since its …