Michael Kraft

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel mechanical passive alignment technique is described aiming at nanoprecision alignment based on kinematic and elastic averaging effects, where a number of cantilever-supported pyramid and V-pit microstructures have been incorporated into the outer circumference area of the to-be-bonded Si chips, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, an atom chip that operates as a matter wave interferometer was fabricated and tested by ion-beam milling of gold evaporated onto a silicon substrate, showing that it can coherently split and recombine a Bose-Einstein condensate with good phase stability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility and the suitability of the fabrication process based on gold sputtering technique to realize such devices were discussed and a lower cost technique based on Gold electroplating was considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used focused ion beam (FIB) milling to decrease the mass of a pair of electrostatically coupled microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators and demonstrated that the amplitude ratio of the coupled-resonators at the in-phase mode-frequency is five orders of magnitude greater than the equivalent frequency shift of a single resonator device.

TL;DR: In this article, the design of an electronic interface for an electrically floating micro-disc is presented, which can be used as a multi-axis capacitive accelerometer with the proof mass levitated by electrostatic forces.