Piezoelectric pumps have obtained considerable significance and have become the focus
area of research for biomedicine, fuel supply, liquid cooling, chemistry and precision driving …

Energy harvesting from piezoelectric materials is quite common and has been studied for
the past few decades, but, recently, there have been a lot of new advancements in …

The ambient energy as an available and harvestable energy source which has a high
potential to generate electricity for powering electronics devices. Piezoelectric materials, as …

Microfluidics has emerged from the MEMS-technology as an important research field and a
promising market. This paper gives an overview on one of the most important microfluidic …

Ill-posedness. Regularization. Stability. Uniqueness. To many engineers, the language of
inverse analysis projects a mysterious and frightening image, an image made even more …

This paper briefly reviews recent research and developments of micropump designs with a
particular emphasis on mechanical micropumps and summarizes their applications in …

A review of the state of the art in micropumping technologies for driving fluid through
microchannels is presented with a particular emphasis on small-scale cooling applications …

This paper presents analytical modeling, 3-D electro-fluid–structural simulations, fabrication
and test of a piezoelectrically actuated PDMS based planar valveless micropump. The …

Assessing personal exposure to air pollution has long proven challenging due to
technological limitations posed by the samplers themselves. Historically, wearable aerosol …

This paper presents a lumped-mass model especially developed for valveless diffuser
pumps. It is implemented using MATLAB. The model is tested for different previously …