Abstract:
A method of printing comprises the steps of: providing a solid state material having an exposed surface; applying an auxiliary layer to the exposed surface to form a composite structure, the auxiliary layer having a stress pattern; subjecting the composite structure to conditions facilitating fracture of the solid state material along a plane at a depth therein; and removing the auxiliary layer and, therewith, a layer of the solid state material terminating at the fracture depth, wherein an exposed surface of the removed layer of solid state material has a surface topology corresponding to the stress pattern.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a fluid container, wherein at least two half containers are mated in said fluid to be contained in said container. This method allows the incorporation of prefabricated devices into each half containers as well as the functional coupling of these devices after mating of the half containers, thus resulting in a functional hybrid MEMS fluid container.
Abstract:
A microparticle includes an oblong flexible tail able to propel the microparticle in a solution along a trajectory using beats transverse to the trajectory, the tail including at least one magnetic element such that the magnetic element causes beats of the tail under the action of an external alternating magnetic field non-collinear with the trajectory and a head mechanically connected to a proximal end of the tail. The microparticle includes at least one layer of material formed from one piece and including the tail and the head, the dimensions and/or shape of the head being selected such that the beats of the proximal end of the tail are limited with respect to the beats of the distal end of the tail and such that the head does not perform a complete revolution around an axis parallel to the trajectory under the effect of the external alternating magnetic field.
Abstract:
A method of forming component interface in semiconductor or MEMS manufacture is by way of a bad adhesion material or manufacture, or an easy etching and removable material, to form an easily removed component interface in the middle between a manufactured substrate and a layer of semiconductor circuit or MEMS component formed on the manufactured substrate as a basis, therefore, after semiconductor or MEMS manufacture is completed, the component interface is so easily destroyed by an external force that the layer of semiconductor circuit or MEMS component is easily separated from the manufactured substrate.
Abstract:
A process for producing flexible MEMS thin film without a manufactured substrate applied in a MEMS manufacture specially includes a method of forming a component interface in the middle between a manufactured substrate and a MEMS thin film formed on the manufactured substrate as a basis, which component interface is so easily destroyed by an external force that the MEMS thin film produced by the mentioned process is easily separated from the manufactured substrate, and the separated MEMS thin film due to out of limitation from the manufactured substrate may be further processed in later working process to obtain a MEMS thin film with special structural features has flexibility and particularly has electrical circuits, micro structure, or MEMS components integrated and manufactured into inside or on its both sides.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing elements of floating rigid microstructures and a device equipped with such elements.This method of manufacturing at least one element of a microstructure (104, 116) in a substrate including a stacking of a support layer (100), a layer (102) of sacrificial material and a structure layer (104) comprises the following steps:a) etching in the substrate a relief structure (108) with lateral sides (110a, 110b)b) formation of a so-called rigidity lining (116) on the lateral sides (110a, 110b),c) removal of the sacrificial material from the relief structure (108) in order to release the floating microstructure.
Abstract:
A plurality of nanoparticles, a structure assembled therefrom, a method of forming the structure, including a plurality of particles where each particle of the plurality of particles is configured with a substantially predetermined shape and a largest dimension less than about 100 micrometers, and where each particle of the plurality of particles includes an opening through the particle.
Abstract:
A method of producing particles includes providing a substrate structure that comprises a solid substrate; forming a target structure on said substrate structure, said target structure comprising a radiation-reactive material; forming a spatially patterned beam of radiation using a patterned mask; exposing at least a portion of the target structure to the spatially patterned beam of radiation to which the radiation-reactive material reacts while leaving other portions of the target structure unexposed to the radiation; removing substantially all of one of the exposed or the unexposed patterned portions of the target structure to provide a plurality of non-contiguous structures that include at least a portion of the radiation-reactive material; and separating the plurality of non-contiguous structures comprising the radiation-reactive material from the substrate structure into a fluid material. Each non-contiguous structure of the radiation-reactive material provides at least a portion of a separate particle after the separation.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides implementations of high surface area stacked layered metallic structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related methods. A plurality of stacked layers on a substrate may be manufactured from a plating bath including a first metal and a second metal. A modulated plating current can deposit alternate first metal layers and alloy layers, the alloy layers including the first metal and the second metal. Gaps between the alloy layers can be formed by selectively etching some portions of the first metal layers to define a stacked layered structure. Stacked layered structures may be useful in applications to form capacitors, inductors, catalytic reactors, heat transfer tubes, non-linear springs, filters, batteries, and heavy metal purifiers.