Explores the design and components of an antenna deployment mechanism, covering critical requirements, main functions, actuator types, and power budget considerations.
Explores scaling laws, simulations, and challenges in electrostatic MEMS, focusing on energy density, capacitance, actuators, and practical applications in haptic gloves.
Discusses engineering challenges in distributed systems, energy harvesting, and system building, emphasizing the importance of core disciplinary knowledge and new research themes.
Explores transduction through actuation mechanisms, covering force-based and deformation-based methods, shape memory polymers, electrostatic and magnetic actuation principles, and examples like Texas Instruments DLP & DMD.
Delves into the theory of material activation, proposing a unified mathematical framework to model how multiple stimuli can produce changes at the macroscopic level.