At the University of Louisville J. B. Speed School of Engineering
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Student Muhemmad Yassin got a microelectromechanical (MEMS) gripper to grasp this conductive fiber as part of his summer research in the IMPACT REU program. This project aims to create a porous, breathable packaging system for MEMS in wearable and flow-through applications. Muhemmad is now taking the project on the road …
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Here is Sushmita’s talk from the 2021 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference on designing microelectromechanical system (MEMS) layouts that align with one-of-a-kind structures like a piece of fabric. Most fabrics do have a uniform and predictable structure that can be described by a measurement such as “threads per inch.” However, threads do not have the …
Interested in soft robotics made from a diverse array of materials? Attend the SCRAMbots virtual workshop on April 12 at the 2021 RoboSoft conference! Registration is free. Speaker information, registration, and poster session details here: https://www.scrambots.com/robosoft-workshop-2021
Our collaborative work on thermal processing of gold nanoplates with the O’Toole group (U of L Bioengineering) is accepted (update: published) at Materials Letters. We’ve used their triangular gold nanoplates to induce local heating of microelectromechanical (MEMS) structures with infrared lasers. The nanoplates are typically the first layer to go onto the MEMS wafer. In …
Our paper “Absolute length sensor based on time of flight in stretchable optical fibers,” by Ji-Tzuoh Lin and C. K. Harnett, is accepted at IEEE Sensors Letters . What’s new over our previous work? We measured the travel time of a laser pulse, rather than its amplitude in a stretchable optical fiber. This method is …