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Silicon microcantilevers with MOSFET detection

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

We report the fabrication of silicon microcantilevers with MOSFET detection, to be used in force measurements for biomolecular detection. Thin cantilevers are required for a high force sensitivity. Therefore the source and drain of the transistors have bee ...

2010

Development of a 2-DOF Electrostatic Haptic Joystick for MRI/fMRI Applications

This paper describes the development of a 2-DOF electrostatic haptic joystick designed for neuroscience studies in an MRI/fMRI. The joystick is fabricated using non-magnetic materials and actuated by two high-power electrostatic motor units which produce v ...

2009

Silicon microcantilevers with MOSFET detection

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

2009

Probing nanomechanical properties from biomolecules to living cells

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas

Atomic force microscopy is being increasingly used to explore the physical properties of biological structures. This technique involves the application of a force to the sample and a monitoring of the ensuing deformation process. The available experimental ...

Springer-Verlag2008

Physical properties and interactions of biomolecules

Mélanie Favre

The aim of this thesis was to explore the statistical physics and the mechanical properties of individual biomolecules, to study their interactions, and to develop new techniques based on atomic force microscopy (AFM). First, we exploit the high resolution ...

EPFL2008

Characterization and optimization of liquid electrodes for lateral dielectrophoresis

Philippe Renaud, Thomas Michael Braschler, Harald Van Lintel, Nicolas Demierre, Olof Pontus Linderholm, Urban Seger

Using the concept of insulator-based "electrodeless" dielectrophoresis, we present a novel geometry for shaping electric fields to achieve lateral deviation of particles in liquid flows. The field is generated by lateral planar metal electrodes and is guid ...

2007

The Casimir force in the semi-classical regime

The present thesis is devoted to a detailed study of the Casimir force exerting between two parallel metallic plates whose conducting behaviour is described on the microscopic level. In the semi-classical regime, which corresponds to large separations and ...

EPFL2006

Electrostatic Glass Motors

This Master project concerns the electrostatic motors and focus essentially on the transverse force producing the torque. A study of this force is done with a glass sample and an electret sample under different input parameters such as the applied voltage, ...

2006

Methane screening in JET reverse field experiments

Richard Pitts

JET plasmas with reverse magnetic field feature a different SOL flow than those with normal field. The observed carbon fuelling efficiency from injecting methane gas was similar in reverse and normal field. EDGE2D modeling used an externally applied force ...

2005

Analyzing an electromechanical actuator by Schwarz-Christoffel mapping

Yves Perriard, Marcel Jufer, Miroslav Markovic

We present an application of the conformal mapping (CM) method to determine the magnetic field and force in an electromechanical actuator. First, we show how to find, using a special type of CM known as the Schwarz-Christoffel mapping, the magnetic field i ...

2004