Center for NanoSpace Technologies, Inc.

MEMS

A Practical Guide to Design, Analysis and Applications
Edited by Jan Korvink and Oliver Paul
 
Publishers Price: $249
Copyright: 2006 · Status: In Stock
ISBN: 0815514972 / 9780815514978
Pages: 990 pp · Binding: Hardback · Size: 6" x 9" · Weight: 3.13lbs

Does MEMS technology offer advantages to your company’s products? Will miniature machines on a chip solve your application objectives for "smaller, better, cheaper, and faster?" If you are a product development engineer or manager, the decision to design a MEMS device implies having an application and market. This book offers you a practical guide to making this important business decision. Here, both veterans and newcomers to MEMS device design will get advice on evaluating MEMS for their business, followed by guidance on selecting solutions, technologies and design support tools. You will see how experts from around the world have explored MEMS possibilities and achieved new breakthrough devices such as RF-MEMS for mobile telecommunications, micro-optics for internet hardware, catheter-based minimal-invasive operating theatre tools, and in vivo monitoring of exact dosage of medication in ailing patients. This handbook offers a wealth of analytical techniques treating problematic areas such as alternative designs reliability, packaging, and cost effectiveness.

MEMS Introduction

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Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) deal with the micrometer scaled design and fabrication of nearly any macro-electro-mechanical system that one could imagine. MEMS, a coined acronym in the USA, are referred to as micromachines in Japan. MEMS promise to lead microelectronics into important new areas that will be revolutionized by low-cost data acquisition, signal processing, and control. Mechanical systems have a history of blazing the technology forefront for intelligent apparatus, such as:

• Models of the solar-system { planetary orbits }

• Calculators { abacus, cash register, slide rule }

• Clocks

One of the appeals of MEMS technology is the ability to intermix / integrate mechanical with anaolg /digital electrical and optical devices on the same substrate. The concept of employing locally smart sensors tremendously relieves chip-to-chip I/O communication requirements.

            Due to webspace limitations, this abundant resource can not realistically be posted in it's entirety.  For greater information, order the Center's Introduction to MEMS - a collection of notes.  This is a very informative collection of Topics, written in Course format, for the novice as well as the experienced Scientist, Engineer or Entrepreneur interested in this exciting technology.  There simply is no better table top resource that places the pertinent information into one handy document.

Microdrops and Digital Microfluidics

By Jean Berthier
 
Publishers Price: $160
Copyright: 2008 · Status: In Stock
ISBN: 0815515448 / 9780815515449
Pages: 460 pp · Binding: Hardback · Illustrations: 435 · Size: 7" x 10" · Weight: 3lbs

After spending more than 12 years developing new microsystems for biotechnology – especially dealing with the microfluidic aspects of these devices – Jean Berthier is considered a leading authority in the field. Now, following the success of his book Microfluidics for Biotechnology, Jean Berthier explains how new miniaturization techniques have dramatically expanded the area of microfluidic applications and microsystems into microdrops and digital microfluidics.

Engineers interested in designing more versatile microsystems and students who seek to learn the fundamentals of microfluidics will appreciate the wide range of information found within Microdrops and Digital Microfluidics. The most recent developments in digital microfluidics are described in clear detail, and there is a strong emphasis on the theoretical, computational and experimental study of microdrops.

• Authoritative reporting on the latest developments in microfluidic science, where microscopic liquid volumes are handled as microdrops.
• A methodical examination of how liquid microdrops behave in the complex geometries of modern miniaturized systems and interact with different (microfabricated, textured) solid substrates.
• A thorough explanation of how capillary forces act on liquid interfaces in contact with microfabricated surfaces.
• An analysis of how droplets can be manipulated, handled, or transported using electric fields (electrowetting), acoustic actuation (surface acoustic waves), or by a carrier liquid (droplet microfluidics).
• Over 500 equations and more than 400 illustrations.

Micromixers

Fundamentals, Design and Fabrication
By Nam-Trung Nguyen
 
Publishers Price: $140
Copyright: 2008 · Status: In Stock
ISBN: 081551543X / 9780815515432
Pages: 300 pp · Binding: Hardback · Illustrations: 150 · Size: 7" x 10" · Weight: 1.75lbs

This highly readable book offers a broad look at the fundamentals, design, and fabrication of micromixers, as well as specific applications in chemistry and life sciences. Micromixing is the predominant process taking place in most microfluidic devices for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, genetic sequencing, proteomics, and chemical production. It also has implications for national security via portable detection systems for chemical weapons and explosives.

Written by a best-selling author on this subject, Micromixers: Fundamentals, Design, and Fabrication is for practicing engineers who need current, applicable knowledge. It will also interest chemistry and biochemistry students considering working in this fast growing field, for whom it will provide a strong foundation.

• Provides the basic terminology and fundamental physics of transport effects used in designing micromixers.
• Highlights the advantages and challenges of miniaturization in mixing.
• Outlines currently available technologies for fabricating micromixers.
• Discusses current applications, including labs-on-a-chip for chemical/biochemical analysis, and chemical production.
• Defines electrohydrodynamic, dielectrophoretic, electrokinetic, magneto hydrodynamic, acoustic, thermal and other effects and their implementation in micromixers.

NanoElectronics

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Nanotechnology is the exploitation of novel and improved properties, phenomena, and processes that occur at the intermediate scale, 0.1 to 100 nanometer, between individual atoms, molecules, and their resulting bulk behavior. A cubic volume of one nanometer length per side can contain 176 diamond atoms. Considering that a micron is one micrometer or 10³ nanometers, there could be 176 billion (10⁹) diamond atoms contained within a cube with one micron per side. It becomes very obvious that there is tremendous potential for fabricating molecular systems that could possess high-functional complexity within a single 1-micron cube when designing and fabricating at the nanometer scale. A limited taste of some of the practical reasons why engineering at the nano scale is so promising for this novel / upcoming interdisciplinary science are:

• Designing for higher material strength / hardness,

• Designing for greater material ductility / toughness,

• Designing improved catalysis,

• Designing superior storage materials,

• Developing novel magnetic materials,

• Designing integrated circuits with micro-mechanical actuators and sensors,

• Tailoring density of quantum states within electronic devices to yield lower electronic scattering and greater optical efficiency as well as increased functional density.

• Obtaining nano-fabricated material building blocks for unprecedented bulk-material engineering.

            Due to webspace limitations, this abundant resource can not realistically be posted in it's entirety.  For greater information, order the Center's Introduction to Nano-Science and Materials - a collection of notes.  This is a very informative collection of Topics, written in Course format, for the novice as well as the experienced Scientist, Engineer or Entrepreneur interested in this exciting technology.  There simply is no better table top resource that places the pertinent information into one handy document.

NanoSpace Technologies

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NanoSpace Technologies is a collection of all 3 of the following titles:

• NanoScience - Materials
• MEMS Introduction
• Nanoelectronics

all combined in a soft bound handy desktop resource.

            Due to webspace limitations, this abundant resource can not realistically be posted in it's entirety.  For greater information, order the Center's Introduction to NanoSpace Technologies - a collection of notes.  This is a very informative collection of Topics, written in Course format, for the novice as well as the experienced Scientist, Engineer or Entrepreneur interested in this exciting technology.  There simply is no better table top resource that places the pertinent information into one handy document.

Nanostructured Materials, 2nd Edition

Processing, Properties and Applications, 2nd Edition
Edited by Carl C. Koch
 
Publishers Price: $195
Copyright: 2007 · Status: In Stock
ISBN: 0815515340 / 9780815515340
Pages: 784 pp · Binding: Hardback · Size: 6" x 9" · Weight: 2.5lbs

Nanostructured materials are one of the highest profile classes of materials in science and engineering today, and will continue to be well into the future. Potential applications are widely varied, including washing machine sensors, drug delivery devices to combat avian flu, and more efficient solar panels. Broad and multidisciplinary, the field includes multilayer films, atomic clusters, nanocrystalline materials, and nanocomposites having remarkable variations in fundamental electrical, optic, and magnetic properties.

Nanostructured Materials: Processing, Properties and Applications, 2nd Edition is an extensive update to the exceptional first edition snapshot of this rapidly advancing field. Retaining the organization of the first edition, Part 1 covers the important synthesis and processing methods for the production of nanocrystalline materials. Part 2 focuses on selected properties of nanostructured materials. Potential or existing applications are described as appropriate throughout the book. The second edition has been updated throughout for the latest advances and includes two additional chapters.

The Engineering Documentation Control Handbook, 2nd Ed.

Configuration Management for Industry
By Frank B. Watts
 
Publishers Price: $79
Copyright: 2000 · Status: In Stock
ISBN: 0815514468 / 9780815514466
Pages: 394 pp · Binding: Hardback · Size: 6" x 9" · Weight: 1.75lbs

Ultrananocrystalline Diamond

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
Edited by Olga A. Shenderova and Dieter M. Gruen
 
Publishers Price: $195
Copyright: 2006 · Status: In Stock
ISBN: 0815515243 / 9780815515241
Pages: 620 pp · Binding: Hardback · Size: 6" x 9" · Weight: 3lbs

Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Syntheses, Properties, and Applications is a unique practical reference handbook that brings together the basic science of nanoscale carbon structures, particularly its diamond phase, with detailed information on nanodiamond synthesis, properties, and applications. Here you will learn about UNCD in its two forms, as a dispersed powder made by detonation techniques and as a chemical vapor deposited film. You will also learn about the superior mechanical, tribological, transport, electrochemical, and electron emission properties of UNCD for a wide range of applications including MEMS, NEMS, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, electrochemical sensors, coatings for field emission arrays, photonic and RF switching, biosensors, and neural prostheses, and more.

This "Everything about Ultra-nanocrystalline Diamond" book with 16 chapters is written by leading experts worldwide. It is for everyone who researches carbon nanostructures, everyone who produces them, everyone who characterizes them, and everyone who builds devices using them.