MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 8 Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Newly Discovered Pile Up Effects During Nanoindentation.- Spring Constant Characterization of a Thermally Tunable MEMS Regressive Spring.- Shape Optimization of Cantilevered Devices for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting.- Bonded Hemishell Approach to Encapsulate Microdevices in Spheroidal Packages.- Development of an Infrared Direct Viewer Based on a MEMS Focal Plane Array.- Modeling and Testing RF Meta-Atom Designs for Rapid Metamaterial Prototyping.- Pyroelectric AlN Thin Films Used as a MEMS IR Sensing Material.- In Situ Energy Loss and Internal Friction Measurement of Nanocrystalline Copper Thin Films Under Different Temperature.- Effect of Current Density and Magnetic Field on the Growth and Morphology of Nickel Nanowires.