Surface tension-driven self-alignment is a passive and highly-accurate positioning
mechanism that can significantly simplify and enhance the construction of advanced …

This paper surveys contact micromanipulation strategies that are developed to tackle the
microscale-related phenomena in microassembly. Strategies are divided according to how …

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) can be viewed as self-propelled natural microrobots. These
bacterial microrobots can be remotely controlled using magnetic fields due to their internal …

This paper reports an in-depth study of a hybrid microassembly technique that combines a
robotic micromanipulator and a water droplet self-alignment, which greatly improves the …

Micro-and nanoparticles can be trapped by a nonuniform electric field through the effect of
the dielectrophoretic principle. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is used to separate, manipulate, and …

Enabling unique architectures and functionalities of microsystems for numerous applications
in electronics, photonics and other areas often requires microassembly of separately …

Within the currently rising trend of heterogeneous microsystem integration and packaging,
capillary self-assembly emerges as an innovative technique to enhance, complement and …

Robotic microhandling is a promising way to assemble microcomponents in order to
manufacture a new generation of hybrid microelectromechanical systems. However, at the …

Capillarity is pivotal to many important technologies, including capillary self-alignment and
self-assembly for heterogeneous microsystem integration and packaging. Lateral capillary …

New surface mounting and packaging technologies, using self-assembly with chips having
cavity structures, were investigated for three-dimensional (3D) and hetero integration of …