A soft robotic peacock spider. Researchers have combined three different manufacturing techniques to create a novel origami-inspired soft material microfabrication process that goes beyond what existing approaches can achieve at this small scale.
The schematic principles of device design and fabrication: The proposed microfluidic device made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer, using standard photolithography fabrication techniques to form pixel-patterned microchannels. The pressure inside the ...
Micro/nanostructure of fish scale and biomimetic fabrication and characterization. (a) arapaima giga; (b-d) micro/nanostructure of fish scale, three colored dotted lines represent three periodically arranged fiber layers; (e-f) biomimetic bottom-up ...
Nanofabrication technology has made significant progress more recently, and it is now possible to further scale MEMS down to nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). The fusion of MEMS/NEMS with nanophotonic elements opens up new possibilities and creates ...
Optics and Photonics News: 2018-08-16 - MEMS technology
But rather than moving around dye like an E-Ink screen, IMOD uses tiny moving mirror-like elements, referred to as being a micro-electro-mechanical system, or MEMS (also known as a “micro-machine”). The downside to IMOD has historically been that it ...
