After two decades of intensive development, 3-D integration has proven invaluable for
allowing integrated circuits to adhere to Moore's Law without needing to continuously shrink …

Surface tension-driven self-alignment is a passive and highly-accurate positioning
mechanism that can significantly simplify and enhance the construction of advanced …

This paper presents a review of the wafer-to-wafer alignment used for 3-D integration. This
technology is an important manufacturing technique for advanced microelectronics and …

This paper reports an in-depth study of a hybrid microassembly technique that combines a
robotic micromanipulator and a water droplet self-alignment, which greatly improves the …

The floatability of solid particles on the water surface governs many natural phenomena and
industrial processes including film flotation and froth flotation separation of coal and …

We demonstrate a liquid iris diaphragm using dielectric force, enabling its aperture to vary
from 4mm at the resting state to 1.5 mm at 160V_rms. The liquid iris is a packaged optical …

In this study, an energy-based three-dimensional (3D) model is created using Surface
Evolver to predict the passive components solder joint shape after reflow soldering. The …

Capillary forces of a shearing liquid bridge can significantly affect the friction and adhesion
of interacting surfaces, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We custom built a …

In my research a 3D model was created to investigate the restoring force arising and the self-
alignment occurring during reflow soldering; and simulations were performed to examine the …

Objectives: A tearable dissolving microneedle system (TD-MN system) was developed for
shortening the time required to administer drugs into the skin through the dissolving …