Controllable/active bearings are mainly associated with active magnetic bearings (AMBs),
whereas active bearing control is also found in many types of bearings, eg fluid, gas and …

The commercialization of nanoscale devices requires the development of high-throughput
nanofabrication technologies that allow frequent design changes,. Maskless …

Optical imaging and photolithography promise broad applications in nano-electronics,
metrologies and single-molecule biology. Light diffraction however sets a fundamental limit …

Flying height (FH) control sliders with thermal actuation have been introduced recently in
commercial products for compensating the static FH loss and reducing the risk of head-disk …

Using the recently developed smart wall molecular dynamics algorithm, shear-driven gas
flows in nano-scale channels are investigated to reveal the surface–gas interaction effects …

Simple and efficient nanofabrication technology with low cost and high flexibility is
indispensable for fundamental nanoscale research and prototyping. Lithography in the near …

Molecular dynamics simulations of force-driven nano-channel gas flows show two distinct
flow regions. While the bulk flow region can be determined using kinetic theory, transport in …

To peruse the free vibration of curved functionally graded piezoelectric (FGP) nanosize
beam in thermal environment, nonlocal elasticity theory is applied for modeling the nano …

In this work, piezoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films are deposited under different deposition
conditions using RF magnetron sputtering method. The influence of RF power, O2/(Ar+ O2) …

Nano-electro-mechanical systems accelerometers using undoped (Z) and 1 wt.%, 3 wt.%
and 5 wt.% of Vanadium doped (ZV1, ZV3 and ZV5) Zinc Oxide (active layer) nanorods are …