Micro and Nanoscale Systems: Volume 1659

Part I. Microscale Systems: 1. Nucleation rate of capillary bridges between multi-asperity surfaces; 2. High resolution position monitoring of suspended MEMS towards biological and chemical sensors; 3. Low temperature fabrication and surface modification methods for fused silica micro- and nanochannels; 4. Flexible surface acoustic wave devices and its applications in microfluidics; 5. Modeling of a MEMS floating element shear sensor; 6. Submicron displacement measurements of MEMS using optical microphotographs in aqueous media: enhancement using color image processing; 7. Low temperature preparation of KNbO3 films by hydrothermal method and their characterization; 8. Self-tensioning support post design to control residual stress in MEMS fixed-fixed beams; 9. Controlling environment and contact materials to optimize ohmic microrelay lifetimes; 10. Development of a photoresponsive and electrostrictive material from P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) and TiOPc composite; 11. Flexible surface acoustic wave based temperature and humidity sensors; Part II. Nanoscale Systems: 12. 'Seeing' the resonant SPP modes confined in metal nanocavity via cathodoluminescence spectroscopy; 13. Eu-doping induced improvement on the second harmonic generation of ZnO nanowires; 14. Examining the crystal growth that influences the electronic device output from vertical arrays of ZnO nanowires; 15. Single-walled carbon nanotube growth with narrow diameter distribution from Pt catalysts by alcohol gas source method; 16. Fabrication and characterization of solution-processed carbon nanotube supercapacitors; 17. Origin of hysteresis in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors; 18. Anatase TiO2 nanowires, thin films, and surfaces: ab initio studies of electronic properties and non-adiabatic excited state dynamics; 19. Localization of excitons in thin-core multi-shell quantum well tubes; 20. Tuning band energies in a combined axial and radial GaAs/GaP heterostructure; 21. Raman spectroscopy in group IV nanowires and nanowire axial heterostructures; 22. Novel TEM sample preparation using XeF2 selective etching; 23. Magnetic field assisted electrospinning of nanofibers using solutions with PVDF and Fe3O4 nanoparticles; 24. Enhanced capacitive properties of manganese dioxide nanowires coating with polyaniline by in situ polymerization; 25. Structural stability of iron oxide nanotubes and an enhancement of photo induced current detected in the complex with fullerenols; 26. High throughput synthesis of ceramic nanofibers; 27. VLS growth of position-controlled InP nanowires and formation of radial heterostructures on mask-patterned InP substrates; 28. TiO2 nanowires as a wide bandgap Dirac material: a numerical study of impurity scattering and Anderson disorder; 29. Ultraviolet photodetector fabricated from 3D WO3 nanowires/reduced graphene oxide composite material; 30. Effects of coulomb impurity in semiconductor nanowire; 31. Observation of pseudoelastic behavior in large Cu-Ni composite multilayer nanowires; 32. Transparent conductive three-layered composite films based on carbon nanotubes with improved mechanical stability; 33. Low cost scalable self-assembly of silver nanowire thin films for surface enhanced Raman scattering application; 34. Material prospects of reconfigurable transistors (RFETs) – from silicon to germanium nanowires.