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Design and testing of a polymeric microgripper for cell manipulation (2007)
Journal Article
Solano, B., & Wood, D. (2007). Design and testing of a polymeric microgripper for cell manipulation. Microelectronic Engineering, 84(5-8), 1219-1222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mee.2007.01.153

This work presents the design, fabrication and testing of a thermally actuated microgripper for the manipulation of single cells and other biological particles. This microgripper has been fabricated with a particular combination of surface micromachi... Read More about Design and testing of a polymeric microgripper for cell manipulation.

Artificial plasmonic materials for THz applications (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gallant, A., Levitt, J., Kaliteevski, M., Wood, D., Petty, M., Abram, R., Brand, S., Swift, G., Zeze, D., & Chamberlain, J. (2007, February). Artificial plasmonic materials for THz applications. Presented at Terahertz and Gigahertz Electronics and Photonics VI, San Jose, CA

This paper reports on the development of micromachined pillar arrays for the filtering of terahertz radiation. These pillar arrays are fabricated using ultraviolet based processing of thick SU8. This micromachining technique enables the array pattern... Read More about Artificial plasmonic materials for THz applications.

The fabrication of THz photonic filters using ultraviolet based SU8 micromachining (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gallant, A., Levitt, J., Swift, G., Dai, D., Kaliteevski, M., Wood, D., Petty, M., & Chamberlain, J. (2006, December). The fabrication of THz photonic filters using ultraviolet based SU8 micromachining

Here we report on the development of an ultraviolet (UV) based exposure technique for the fabrication of high aspect ratio metallic pillar arrays. These arrays act as photonic band gap based filters. Completed structures show a relative transmission... Read More about The fabrication of THz photonic filters using ultraviolet based SU8 micromachining.

Electrical investigations of layer-by-layer films of carbon nanotubes (2006)
Journal Article
Palumbo, M., Lee, K., Ahn, B., Suri, A., Coleman, K., Zeze, D., …Petty, M. (2006). Electrical investigations of layer-by-layer films of carbon nanotubes. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 39(14), 3077-3085. https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/39/14/030

Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with anionic or cationic coatings have been prepared by exploiting the ability of certain surfactants to form a monolayer shell around the nanotube. The presence of electrically charged functional groups on the su... Read More about Electrical investigations of layer-by-layer films of carbon nanotubes.

High sensitivity love-mode liquid density sensors (2005)
Journal Article
Turton, A., Bhattacharyya, D., & Wood, D. (2005). High sensitivity love-mode liquid density sensors. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 123-24, 267-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2005.02.010

An experimental study into Love-mode liquid sensors using polyimide for a waveguide layer has been carried out. Love devices were built on Y-ST quartz with 40 μm wavelength inter-digitated transducers operating up to 124.7 MHz, and polyimide layers b... Read More about High sensitivity love-mode liquid density sensors.

Individually addressable recessed gold microelectrode arrays with monolayers of thio-cyclodextrin nanocavities (2005)
Journal Article
Grancharov, G., Khosravi, E., Wood, D., Turton, A., & Kataky, R. (2005). Individually addressable recessed gold microelectrode arrays with monolayers of thio-cyclodextrin nanocavities. Analyst, 130(10), 1351-1357. https://doi.org/10.1039/b506367a

Four, individually addressable 30 mu m diameter, e-beam deposited, gold microelectrodes recessed by 6 mm were suitably spaced on a single substrate to avoid diffusional overlap between each microelectrode. The single substrate device was functionalis... Read More about Individually addressable recessed gold microelectrode arrays with monolayers of thio-cyclodextrin nanocavities.

Surface micromachined membranes for wafer level packaging (2005)
Journal Article
Gallant, A., & Wood, D. (2005). Surface micromachined membranes for wafer level packaging. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15(7), S47-S52. https://doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/15/7/007

Novel surface micromachined membranes have been developed for wafer level packaging and polymer encapsulation. Laterally unconstrained electroforming allows small etch holes to be included in thick membranes whilst only requiring a thin, low stress,... Read More about Surface micromachined membranes for wafer level packaging.

Nanometer scale patterning using focused ion beam milling (2005)
Journal Article
Petit, D., Faulkner, C., Johnstone, S., Wood, D., & Cowburn, R. (2005). Nanometer scale patterning using focused ion beam milling. Review of Scientific Instruments, 76(2), Article 026105. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1844431

We report on the performance of focused ion beam (FIB) milling in order to produce nanometer scale devices. Resolution issues have been systematically studied as a function of emission current and working distance, by imaging single pixel lines FIB m... Read More about Nanometer scale patterning using focused ion beam milling.

Room Temperature Performance Of Submicron Bismuth Hall Probes (2004)
Journal Article
Petit, D., Atkinson, D., Johnston, S., Wood, D., & Cowburn, R. P. (2004). Room Temperature Performance Of Submicron Bismuth Hall Probes. IEE proceedings. Science, measurement and technology, 151(2), 127-130. https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-smt%3A20040167

Sacrificial layers for widely tunable capacitors (2004)
Journal Article
Gallant, A., & Wood, D. (2004). Sacrificial layers for widely tunable capacitors. IEE proceedings. Science, measurement and technology, 151(2), 104-109

The role of fabrication techniques on the performance of widely tunable micromachined capacitors (2004)
Journal Article
Gallant, A., & Wood, D. (2004). The role of fabrication techniques on the performance of widely tunable micromachined capacitors. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 110(1-3), 423-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2003.07.006

Coventorware 2001.1® is used to identify key vertical dimensions for the low voltage operation of a two-gap widely tunable capacitor. Using identical masking stages, two varieties of tunable capacitor are presented. Nickel structures are demonstrated... Read More about The role of fabrication techniques on the performance of widely tunable micromachined capacitors.

The modelling and fabrication of widely tunable capacitors (2003)
Journal Article
Gallant, A., & Wood, D. (2003). The modelling and fabrication of widely tunable capacitors. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 13(4), S178-S182

Physics : oxygen drips upwards from superconductors (2002)
Journal Article
Wood, D., Greener, V., & Hampshire, D. (2002). Physics : oxygen drips upwards from superconductors. Nature, 415(6874), 860-860. https://doi.org/10.1038/415860a

Raman and finite-element analysis of a mechanically strained silicon microstructure (2001)
Journal Article
Bowden, M., Gardiner, D., Wood, D., Burdess, J., Harris, A., & Hedley, J. (2001). Raman and finite-element analysis of a mechanically strained silicon microstructure. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 11(1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/11/1/302

Raman microspectroscopy has been used to determine the volumetric micro-strain distribution in mechanically stressed silicon microstructures. Data are presented as strain images with a spatial resolution of around 0.8 µm. A useful correlation is demo... Read More about Raman and finite-element analysis of a mechanically strained silicon microstructure.