Unconventional applications of wire bonding create opportunities for microsystem integration

AC Fischer, JG Korvink, N Roxhed… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Automatic wire bonding is a highly mature, cost-efficient and broadly available back-end
process, intended to create electrical interconnections in semiconductor chip packaging …

Air flow sensing using micro-wire-bonded hair-like hot-wire anemometry

MM Sadeghi, RL Peterson, K Najafi - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a novel, low-cost and high-performance hot-wire air flow sensor which utilizes
a bond-wire as the sensing element. Standard wire-bonding methods are used to form the …

Micro-hydraulic structure for high performance bio-mimetic air flow sensor arrays

MM Sadeghi, RL Peterson… - 2011 International Electron …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Here we introduce a novel micro-hydraulic structure that can significantly improve
performance of many MEMS devices. Using this structure we fabricate and test a new type of …

Biologically inspired, haltere, angular-rate sensors for micro-autonomous systems

GL Smith, SS Bedair, BE Schuster… - … and Applications IV, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Small autonomous aerial systems require the ability to detect roll, pitch, and yaw to enable
stable flight. Existing inertial measurement units (IMUs) are incapable of accurately …

Biomimetic hair sensors: Utilizing the third dimension

K Najafi - SENSORS, 2012 IEEE, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nature and biology utilize a myriad of structures, materials, and schemes to achieve superb
sensing performance with extreme reliability and robustness. One structure used more …

Electrostatic Micro-Hydraulic Hair Sensors and Actuators.

MM Sadeghi - 2014 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
A novel, optimally-designed micro-hydraulic structure is introduced to significantly improve
performance of many MEMS devices for sensing and actuation. The micro-hydraulic system …