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Explores the fundamentals of fluidics, covering Reynolds number, vortices, swimming, sedimentation, pressure drop, flow profiles, lift forces, and gas flows.
Explores failure mechanisms in MEMS, covering design, manufacturing, and in-use failures, emphasizing reliability considerations and mitigation strategies for mechanical shock and vibration resistance.
Explores scaling laws, simulations, and challenges in electrostatic MEMS, focusing on energy density, capacitance, actuators, and practical applications in haptic gloves.
Explores thermal effects, including conduction, convection, and radiation, emphasizing the impact of thin films and nanowires on thermal conductivity reduction.
Explores the evolution of magnetic storage techniques, from longitudinal to perpendicular recording, and heat-assisted magnetic recording, as well as magnetic-core memory principles and magnetoresistive RAM technology.
Explores gas conduction, radiative heat transfer, temperature fluctuations, and heat losses in micromachined devices, emphasizing the impact of small gaps on thermal conductivity.
