Journal of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging

Special Issue on Microactuators for Fluidic Applications

The Journal of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging (JMEP) is publishing a special issue on Microactuators for Fluidic Applications. This Special Issue of JMEP is intended to give a comprehensive overview of the current status in respect to cutting-edge concepts and prototypes in this field. Authors are encouraged to submit primarily research papers with a length of at least 6 pages, and details regarding the format and copy right form can be obtained from http://www.imaps.org/ jmep/authors.htm. If the submission of a review article is envisaged, please contact the guest editor in advance.

Guest Editor:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid
Vienna University of Technology,
Department for Microsystems Technology
Austri
aschmid@isas.tuwien.ac.at

Special Issue Submission Deadline: November 30, 2009

In the recent years, actuators fabricated using MEMS technologies have gained enhanced att enti on both from academia as well as from industry. The specifi c applicati on, however, needs to be carefully selected to exploit their full potenti al due to limitati ons such as low forces or restricted amplitudes which can be provided depending on the actuati on principle. Besides this drawback, micromachined actuators are applied to a broad fi eld of diff erent applicati on scenarios ranging from opti cal, high frequency, bio-medical and fl uidic to those related to sensing and characterizati on in general. For the excitati on of micromachined devices and structures, forces based on electrostati c, piezoelectric, thermo-mechanical and electromagneti c principles are typically applied. In microfl uidics, the ink jet printer head is one of the most prominent representati ve, also from the economical point of view. Besides this success story, innovati ve approaches are reported nowadays in literature for fl uidic fl ow manipulati on and interacti on when targeti ng both liquid and gaseous media.

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