A simple voltage pulse causes unmodified carbon microfibers to bend and recover, revealing unexpected actuation behaviour at microscopic scale. Shaping carbon fibre with electricity Researchers at the ...

Reconfigurable structures that can repeatedly change their three-dimensional shape without manual intervention represent a long-standing goal in microscale engineering. A new origami-inspired ...

An innovative circuit design could enable miniature devices, such as microdrones and other microrobotics, to be powered for longer periods of time while staying lightweight and compact. Using ...

Senior author Patrick Mercier (left), a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and first author Zixiao Lin, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student, both of UC San Diego, ...

MEMS are used in a wide range of applications due to their small size, high precision and ability to be integrated into electronic systems. MEMS are deployed as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and ...

Fabrication of a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) with an integrated micromirror. A) FPCB is attached to a glass substrate using SU-8 as temporary adhesive. B) 3D structures are 3D printed ...

Researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap ...

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Materials that undergo reversible changes in form typically require top-down processing to program the microstructure of the material. As a result, it is difficult to program microscale, 3D ...