Glassy Materials Based Microdevices
Righini, Nicoletta
Glassy Materials Based Microdevices - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019 - 1 electronic resource (284 p.)
Open Access
Microtechnology has changed our world since the last century, when silicon microelectronics revolutionized sensor, control and communication areas, with applications extending from domotics to automotive, and from security to biomedicine. The present century, however, is also seeing an accelerating pace of innovation in glassy materials; as an example, glass-ceramics, which successfully combine the properties of an amorphous matrix with those of micro- or nano-crystals, offer a very high flexibility of design to chemists, physicists and engineers, who can conceive and implement advanced microdevices. In a very similar way, the synthesis of glassy polymers in a very wide range of chemical structures offers unprecedented potential of applications. The contemporary availability of microfabrication technologies, such as direct laser writing or 3D printing, which add to the most common processes (deposition, lithography and etching), facilitates the development of novel or advanced microdevices based on glassy materials. Biochemical and biomedical sensors, especially with the lab-on-a-chip target, are one of the most evident proofs of the success of this material platform. Other applications have also emerged in environment, food, and chemical industries. The present Special Issue of Micromachines aims at reviewing the current state-of-the-art and presenting perspectives of further development. Contributions related to the technologies, glassy materials, design and fabrication processes, characterization, and, eventually, applications are welcome.
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books978-3-03897-619-6 9783038976189
10.3390/books978-3-03897-619-6 doi
enhanced boiling heat transfer microfluidic devices thermal insulation fibers lab-on-a-chip precision glass molding device simulations spray pyrolysis technique dielectric materials detection of small molecules roughness direct metal forming micro-grinding MEMS chalcogenide glass whispering gallery mode down-shifting glass optofluidic microbubble resonator luminescent materials filling ratio 2D colloidal crystal waveguides micro-crack propagation fluid displacement biosensors freeform optics microstructured optical fibers laser micromachining polymeric microfluidic flow cytometry luminescence frequency conversion light micro/nano patterning resonator fiber coupling distributed sensing severing force microsphere alkali cells microfabrication hybrid materials enclosed microstructures infrared optics glassy carbon micromold Ag nanoaggregates microfluidics chemical/biological sensing porous media atomic spectroscopy quartz glass solar energy diffusion soft colloidal lithography groove compound glass metallic microstructure whispering gallery modes sol-gel communications femtosecond laser optofluidics europium aspherical lens long period grating optical cells polymers lasing photovoltaics microresonator sensing microspheres light localization Yb3+ ions laser materials processing photonic microdevices MEMS vapor cells microtechnology ultrafast laser micromachining photon single-cell protein quantification strain microsensor label-free sensor microdevices ultrafast laser welding nuclear fusion vectorial strain gauge single-cell analysis glass molding process
Glassy Materials Based Microdevices - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019 - 1 electronic resource (284 p.)
Open Access
Microtechnology has changed our world since the last century, when silicon microelectronics revolutionized sensor, control and communication areas, with applications extending from domotics to automotive, and from security to biomedicine. The present century, however, is also seeing an accelerating pace of innovation in glassy materials; as an example, glass-ceramics, which successfully combine the properties of an amorphous matrix with those of micro- or nano-crystals, offer a very high flexibility of design to chemists, physicists and engineers, who can conceive and implement advanced microdevices. In a very similar way, the synthesis of glassy polymers in a very wide range of chemical structures offers unprecedented potential of applications. The contemporary availability of microfabrication technologies, such as direct laser writing or 3D printing, which add to the most common processes (deposition, lithography and etching), facilitates the development of novel or advanced microdevices based on glassy materials. Biochemical and biomedical sensors, especially with the lab-on-a-chip target, are one of the most evident proofs of the success of this material platform. Other applications have also emerged in environment, food, and chemical industries. The present Special Issue of Micromachines aims at reviewing the current state-of-the-art and presenting perspectives of further development. Contributions related to the technologies, glassy materials, design and fabrication processes, characterization, and, eventually, applications are welcome.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03897-619-6 9783038976189
10.3390/books978-3-03897-619-6 doi
enhanced boiling heat transfer microfluidic devices thermal insulation fibers lab-on-a-chip precision glass molding device simulations spray pyrolysis technique dielectric materials detection of small molecules roughness direct metal forming micro-grinding MEMS chalcogenide glass whispering gallery mode down-shifting glass optofluidic microbubble resonator luminescent materials filling ratio 2D colloidal crystal waveguides micro-crack propagation fluid displacement biosensors freeform optics microstructured optical fibers laser micromachining polymeric microfluidic flow cytometry luminescence frequency conversion light micro/nano patterning resonator fiber coupling distributed sensing severing force microsphere alkali cells microfabrication hybrid materials enclosed microstructures infrared optics glassy carbon micromold Ag nanoaggregates microfluidics chemical/biological sensing porous media atomic spectroscopy quartz glass solar energy diffusion soft colloidal lithography groove compound glass metallic microstructure whispering gallery modes sol-gel communications femtosecond laser optofluidics europium aspherical lens long period grating optical cells polymers lasing photovoltaics microresonator sensing microspheres light localization Yb3+ ions laser materials processing photonic microdevices MEMS vapor cells microtechnology ultrafast laser micromachining photon single-cell protein quantification strain microsensor label-free sensor microdevices ultrafast laser welding nuclear fusion vectorial strain gauge single-cell analysis glass molding process