Vacuum Nanosystemsfor Energy Conversion

01 Feb 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Roger T. Howe

Micro and nano-fabricated sensors (e.g., accelerometers and gyroscopes) and actuators (e.g., light valve chips for projection and cell-phone displays) have become commonplace in recent years. Some of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16650

Illinois CNST Annual Nanotechnology Workshop 2011: Nanoscale Force Sensors for Biological Applications

13 Jun 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Professor Saif's research focuses on the mechanics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), fracture mechanics, submicron materials behavior and bio-MEMS. He uses MEMS devices, often of his own …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13925

Near-field radiative heat transfer and Casimir Force Measurement

30 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joel Chevrier

This presentation first makes a simple introduction on how the charge fluctuations give rises to these effects that are nowadays most effectively detected using MEMS or AFM technologies. This will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8052

Particle Simulations of Ion Generation and Transport in Microelectromechanical Systems and Micropropulsion

29 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Venkattraman Ayyaswamy

The first part of the talk deals with use of the PIC method with Monte Carlo collisions (MCC) between electrons and the ambient neutral gas to develop models to predict charge accumulation, breakdown …

https://nanohub.org/resources/14112

Capacitance Modeling Tool Using Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping

20 Oct 2010 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, jason clark

Calculate the capacitance between two conductors that may be represented as simply-connected polygonal geometries in 2.5D with Dirichlet boundary conditions

https://nanohub.org/resources/capacitancescm

2010 MNTL UIUC Symposium Lecture 4 - MicroElectronics

23 Jul 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Shyh-Chiang Shen

Dr. Shen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering at the National Taiwan University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9418

Comb Drive Levitation

19 Jan 2010 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, jason clark

Model comb drive levitation effect with Schwarz-Christoffel based algorithm

https://nanohub.org/resources/cdlev

SugarCube

19 Jan 2010 | Tools | Contributor(s): jason clark, Prabhakar Marepalli, xing jin, Aarti Chigullapalli

A tool for ready-made MEMS

https://nanohub.org/resources/sugarcube

SUGARCube - ADXL Accelerometer

03 May 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, Jason Clark

Modeling and simulationg of ADXL accelerometer

https://nanohub.org/resources/sugaradxl

Q-factor calculator with Uncertainty Quantification

06 May 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Sruti Chigullapalli, Xiaohui Guo, Alina Alexeenko

Calculates squeeze-film damping Q-factors of microcantilevers for arbitrary ambient pressures

https://nanohub.org/resources/quq

SUGARCube - Chevron Thermal Actuator

27 Apr 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, Jason Clark

Modeling and Simulation of a Chevron Thermal Actuator

https://nanohub.org/resources/sugarchevron

SUGARCube - Netlist Input Tool

15 Jul 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, Jason Clark

Simulate the user input netlist by SUGAR2.0

https://nanohub.org/resources/sugarnl

SUGARCube - Tang Resonator

04 Jan 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, Jason Clark

Parametric Tang's Comb-Drive Modeling and Simulation

https://nanohub.org/resources/sugartangcd

SUGARCube - Cantilever

01 May 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, Brandon Patterson, Jason Clark, yi zeng

Cantilever modeling and simulation with different loads

https://nanohub.org/resources/sugar