Edward S. Kolesar

TL;DR: In this article, an interdigitated gate electrode field effect transistor (IGE-FET) coupled to an electron beam evaporated copper phthalocyanine thin film was used to selectively detect part-per-billion concentration levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO{sub 2}) and diisopropyl methylphosphonate (DIMP).

TL;DR: In this paper, an active feedback steering of the lateral motion is proposed to counter the pull-in problem in a comb drive, where the actuator must be controllable in the lateral direction and lateral deflection measurements are available.

TL;DR: In this paper, the design, finite-element analysis, and experimental performance evaluation of a thermally-actuated beam is presented, which is a device that uses resistive (Joule) heating to generate thermal expansion and movement.

TL;DR: A miniature gas chromatography (GC) system has been designed and fabricated using silicon micromachining and integrated circuit (IC) processing techniques to separate binary gas mixtures composed of ammonia and nitrogen dioxide when isothermally operated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a unified description of the behavior of the electrothermal microactuator so that it can be adapted to a variety of MEMS applications.