Monday, June 30th    11:30 - 12:30
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS I
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru and Subrata Mukherjee
Room: CIN1.1
MS151A
11:30 MEMS Consumer World: Products and Applications
Benedetto Vigna

11:50 First-Order Size Effects in the Mechanics of Miniaturised Components
Peter Janssen, Johan Hoefnagels, Staf de Keijser and Marc Geers

12:10 On Mechanisms of Energy Dissipation and Transfer in MEMS Vibratory Gyroscopes operated in Vacuum
Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield and Andrei M. Shkel

Monday, June 30th    14:00 - 16:00
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS II
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru and Subrata Mukherjee
Room: CIN1.1
MS151B
14:00 Design Tools for Emerging Technologies (Keynote Lecture)
J. Bardhan, C. Coelho, S. Johnson, H. Reid, L. Zhang and Jacob White

14:30 Multi-Physics Modelling for the Fabrication, Packaging and Reliability of Micro-Systems Components (Keynote Lecture)
Chris Bailey, Stoyan Stoyanov, Ying-Kit Tang, Xiandong Xue and Tim Tilford

15:00 Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization of a Polymeric Thermal Micro-Actuator with an Embedded Skeleton
Gih-Keong Lau, Johanes F. L. Goosen and Fred van Keulen

15:20 Influence of the Casimir Force on Electrostatically Actuated MEMS and NEMS
André Gusso

15:40 Modal Analysis of Nano-wires with Coupled DFT/FEM Calculation
Nathan Hallquist, Daryl Chrzan and Panayiotis Papadopoulos

Monday, June 30th    16:30 - 18:30
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS III - Joint IACM
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru and Subrata Mukherjee
Room: CIN1.1
MS151C
16:30 Dynamic Properties of Piecewise Homogeneous Layers Resting on Elastic Substrates: Band Gaps, Localized Modes and Effect of Prestress
Massimiliano Gei, Alexander Movchan and Davide Bigoni

16:50 Cad of MEMS. Computations and Simulations for LGS Resonant Sensors
Colette Tellier, Thérèse Leblois and Stéphane Durand

17:10 Design of Nonlinear Microswitches for Radiofrequency Applications
Eugenio Brusa and Mircea Gheorghe Munteanu

17:30 From MEMS to NEMS: Modelling and Characterization of the Non Linear Dynamics of Resonators, a Way to Enhance the Dynamic Range
Najib Kacem, Sebastien Hentz, Herve Fontaine, Valerie Nguyen, Marie Therese Delaye, Henri Blanc, Philippe Robert, Nicolas Driot and Regis Dufour

17:50 Influence of the Silicon Membrane Geometry on the Mechanical Behaviour for a Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor
Jean-Francois Le Neal, Sebastiano Brida, Hikmat Hachkar and Patrick Pons

18:10 A New Modelling Methodology of MEMS based on Cosserat Theory
Mustafa Calis, Omar Laghrouche and Marc Desmulliez

Tuesday, July 1st    10:30 - 12:30
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS IV
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru and Subrata Mukherjee
Room: CIN1.1
MS151D
10:30 Reduced-Order Modeling and Coupled Multi-Energy Domain Simulation of Damped Highly Perforated Microstructures
Martin Niessner, Gabriele Schrag and Gerhard Wachutka

10:50 Effects of Viscoelastic and Fluid Damping on the Quality Factor for a Resonant Microcantilever
Russel Cox, Michael Wenzel, Fabien Josse, Stephen Heinrich and Isabelle Dufour

11:10 Fluid Property Variations in Micro-Convection
Shripad Mahulikar and Heinz Herwig

11:30 Energetic Method for Non Linear Dynamic Characterization of MEMS Squeeze Film Damping
Giorgio De Pasquale and Aurelio Somà

11:50 A Kinetic Model for Gas-Surface Interaction
Aldo Frezzotti and Livio Gibelli

12:10 Experimental Validation of Models for Gas Damping from Continuum to Free Molecular Flow
Attilio Frangi and Aldo Ghisi

Tuesday, July 1st    14:00 - 16:00
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS V
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru and Subrata Mukherjee
Room: CIN1.1
MS151E
14:00 Dynamic Characterization of Microresonators by Stroboscopic Optical Microscopy
Fabien Parrain, Alain Bosseboeuf, Jean-Paul Gilles, Souhil Megherbi and Xavier Leroux

14:20 Comparing Simulations and Measurements of Prestressed MEMS
Stephan Hannot, Véronique Rochus and Daniel J. Rixen

14:40 ESD Effects in Capacitive RF MEMS Switches
Jinyu Ruan, Nicolas Nolhier, Georges Papaioannou and Robert Plana

15:00 Theoretical and Experimental Considerations regarding Magnetic Separation in Microfluidic Device
Elena Barbarini, Marioara Avram, Andreea R. Sterian, Guolin Xu and Ciprian Iliescu

15:20 Measurement of Adsorbate Properties with the Pull-In Method
Hamed Sadeghian, Hans Goosen, Andre Bossche and Fred van Keulen

15:40 Dissipation in MEMS in the Near Vacuum Regime
Richard Rosing, Dongsheng Liu, Aldo Ghisi and Andrew Richardson

Tuesday, July 1st    16:30 - 18:30
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS VI
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru and Subrata Mukherjee
Room: CIN1.1
MS151F
16:30 Mechanical Modeling of Electrostatically Actuated RF MEMS Ohmic Switch with Two Side Electrodes – Analysis of Various Loading Conditions
Adam Koszewski and Frédéric Souchon

16:50 MEMS Modelling using Non-Conforming Elements
Véronique Rochus, Daniel J. Rixen and Jean-Claude Golinval

17:10 A New Methodology for RF MEMS Contact Simulation
David Peyrou, Fabienne Pennec, Hikmat Achkar, Patrick Pons, Robert Plana and Frédéric Courtade

17:30 Improvements in Accuracy of RF-MEMS Electromechanical Simulation within Cadence©
Jacopo Iannacci, Benno Margesin, Flavio Giacomozzi, Eugenio Brusa, Mircea Gheorghe Munteanu and Antonio Gnudi

17:50 Topology Optimization of Reinforced Polysilicon Thin Plates for MEMS Based Microphones
Carlos Calaza, Sabrina Colpo, Viviana Mulloni, Flavio Giacomozzi and Benno Margesin

18:10 Cohesive Modelling for Spontaneous Adhesion in Microelectromechanical Systems
Raffaele Ardito, Alberto Corigliano, Biagio De Masi and Attilio Frangi

 

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