Special Issue "Integrated Design and Fabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems with Additive Manufacturing"
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 268
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design; manufacturing; MEMS; dynamic systems; biorobotics; biosensors; bioacutators
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Dr. Ki-Young Song
Interests: BioMEMS; soft robotics; 3D printing; deep learning
Interests: additive manufacturing; prosthetic devices; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; nanotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies have been utilized in rapid and cost-effective fabrication processes. With its improved high resolution and precision, AM is becoming an increasingly promising fabrication method for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), including sensors, actuators, structures, medical devices, robots, and more. In addition, the combination of conventional microfabrication and AM processes can create more sophisticated MEMS devices, e.g., embedded MEMS. AM processes have brought important benefits to MEMS in terms of design freedom and selection of materials for consideration of the sustainability of MEMS (or green MEMS). Therefore, more optimal developments of MEMS can be expected via integrated design and AM along with material selection.
This Special Issue on “Integrated Design and Fabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems with Additive Manufacturing” aims to present both original contributions and comprehensive reviews dealing with various design, material selection, and AM and manufacturing processes suitable for MEMS. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Additive manufacturing for microstructures
- Additive manufacturing for microsensors
- Additive manufacturing for microactuators
- Additive manufacturing for microfluidics
- Additive manufacturing for microsystems on biomedical and healthcare applications
- Novel additive manufacturing processes for MEMS
- Novel materials of additive manufacturing for MEMS
- Design for AM for MEMS
Prof. Dr. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang
Dr. Ki-Young Song
Dr. Niraj Sinha
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- 3D/4D printing
- microdevice
- microstructure
- microsensor
- microactuator
- microfluidics
- microsystems for biomedical applications
- design
