MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Integrated process feasibility of hard-mask for tight pitch interconnects fabrication....Pages 1-7
Thermoelectric Effects in Current Induced Crystallization of Silicon Microstructures....Pages 9-16
Evaluation of Resistance Measurement Techniques in Carbon Black and Carbon Nano-tubes Reinforced Epoxy....Pages 17-23
A nano-tensile tester for creep studies....Pages 25-29
The Measurement of Cyclic Creep Behavior in Copper Thin Film Using Microtensile Testing....Pages 31-38
New Insight into Pile-up in Thin Film Indentation....Pages 39-43
Measuring Substrate-Independent Young’s Modulus of Thin Films....Pages 45-51
Analysis of Spherical Indentation of an Elastic Bilayer Using a Modified Perturbation Approach....Pages 53-57
Nano-indentation Studies of Polyglactin 910 Monofilament Sutures....Pages 59-64
Analytical approach for the determination of nanomechanical properties for metals....Pages 65-73
Advances in Thin Film Indentation....Pages 75-81
Cyclic Nanoindentation Shakedown of Muscovite and Its Elastic Modulus Measurement....Pages 83-92
Assessment of Digital Holography for 3D-Shape Measurement of Micro Deep Drawing Parts in comparison to Confocal Microscopy....Pages 93-98
Full-Field Bulge Testing Using Global Digital Image Correlation....Pages 99-103
Experimental Investigation of Deformation Mechanisms Present in Ultrafine-Grained Metals....Pages 105-110
Characterization of a Variation on AFIT’s Tunable MEMS Cantilever Array Metamaterial....Pages 111-118
MEMS for real-time infrared imaging....Pages 119-124
New Insights into Enhancing Microcantilever MEMS Sensors....Pages 125-130
A Miniature MRI-Compatible Fiber-optic Force Sensor Utilizing Fabry-Perot Interferometer....Pages 131-136
Micromechanical Structure With Stable Linear Positive And Negative Stiffness....Pages 137-143
Terahertz Metamaterial Structures Fabricated by PolyMUMPs....Pages 145-150
Investigations Into 1D and 2D Metamaterials at Infrared Wavelengths....Pages 151-158
MEMS integrated metamaterials with variable resonance operating at RF frequencies....Pages 159-166
Creep measurements in free-standing thin metal film micro-cantilever bending....Pages 167-171
MEMS Reliability for Space Applications by Elimination of Potential Failure Modes through Analysis....Pages 173-176
Analysis and Evaluation Methods Associated with the Application of Compliant Thermal Interface Materials in Multi-chip Electronic Board Assemblies....Pages 177-187
Hierarchical Reliability Model for Life Prediction of Actively Cooled LED-Based Luminaire....Pages 189-190
Direct Determination of Interfacial Traction-Separation Relations in Chip-Package Systems....Pages 191-191