Publications de Massimo Mastrangeli

Nanoscale topographical control of capillary assembly of nanoparticles

Jürgen Brugger, Olivier Martin, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Massimo Mastrangeli, Elmira Shahrabi, Jérémy Butet, Valentin Flauraud, Gabriel David Bernasconi

Predetermined and selective placement of nanoparticles onto large-area substrates with nanometre-scale precision is essential to harness the unique properties of nanoparticle assemblies, in particular for functional optical and electro-optical nanodevices. ...

2017

Mode Evolution in Strongly Coupled Plasmonic Dolmens Fabricated by Templated Assembly

Jürgen Brugger, Olivier Martin, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Massimo Mastrangeli, Valentin Flauraud, Jérémy Butet, Gabriel David Bernasconi

Plasmonic antennas have enabled a wealth of applications that exploit tailored near-fields and radiative properties, further endowed by the bespoke interactions of multiple resonant building blocks. Specifically, when the interparticle distances are reduce ...

2017

Fluid-Mediated Stochastic Self-Assembly at Centimetric and Sub-Millimetric Scales: Design, Modeling, and Control

Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégory Mermoud, Bahar Haghighat

Stochastic self-assembly provides promising means for building micro-/nano-structures with a variety of properties and functionalities. Numerous studies have been conducted on the control and modeling of the process in engineered self-assembling systems co ...

2016

A Study of Yield Predictions for a Model of Homogeneous Self-Assembling Components

Massimo Mastrangeli

Self-assembly of homogeneous components has the advantage of being a decentralised and highly parallel method for assembling multiple target structures, and is ideal for effective large-scale manufacturing. Yet assembly yield may be negatively affected by ...

2015

Automated Real-Time Control of Fluidic Self-Assembly of Microparticles

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Felix Stephan Schill, Helmut Knapp

Self-assembly is a key coordination mechanism for large multi-unit systems and a powerful bottom-up technology for micro/nanofabrication. Controlled self-assembly and dynamic reconfiguration of large ensembles of microscopic particles can effectively bridg ...

2014

Liquid-Filled Sealed Mems Capsules Fabricated By Fluidic Self-Assembly

Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Loïc Jacot-Descombes

We present a new method to encapsulate functional liquids into sealed MEMS capsules by fluidic self-assembly. Self-assembly of 200 mu m SU-8 cargos and picoliter liquid co-encapsulation are driven by the interplay of global fluidic drag and short-range cap ...

IEEE2014

Three-dimensional polymeric microtiles for optically-tracked fluidic self-assembly

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli

Self-assembly (SA) is a bio-inspired key coordination mechanism for swarms of intelligent agents as well as a pervasive bottom-up methodology for the fabrication of heterogeneous micro- and nanosystems. Analytical studies of SA at small scales are therefor ...

2014

Inkjet printed superparamagnetic polymer composite hemispheres with programmed magnetic anisotropy

Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto, Christofer Hierold, Loïc Jacot-Descombes, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann

We present the fabrication and characterization of large arrays of inkjet-printed superparamagnetic polymer composite (SPMPC) hemispherical microstructures. SPMPCs are appealing for applications in microsystems and nanorobotics due to the added functionali ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Dynamics of capillary self-alignment for mesoscopic foil devices

Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli

We report experimental evidence for three sequential, distinct dynamic regimes in the capillary self-alignment of centimeter-sized foil dies released at large uniaxial offsets from equilibrium. We show that the initial transient wetting regime, along with ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Inkjet-printed SU-8 Hemispherical Microcapsules and Silicon chip Embedding

Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Loïc Jacot-Descombes

Planar lithography techniques are not effective for precise fabrication of microdevices with hemispherical shapes. Drop-on-demand (DOD) inkjet printing (IJP) of photo-curable ink is a more appropriate fabrication approach as it takes advantage of the surfa ...

2013