Journal Sensors and Actuator A: Physical, Vol. 144, Issue 1

Journal: SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A: PHYSICAL

ISSN: 0924-4247 Vol.144, Issue 1

Date: 28 May 2008

1.	Editorial Board Page CO2

General Section

2.	High-speed gas concentration measurement using ultrasound Pages 1-6 H. Toda and T. Kobayakawa

3.	Optimization and characterization of a ZnO biosensor array Pages 7-12 Anthony Dickherber, Christopher D. Corso and William D. Hunt

Physical Section

4.	A mid-infrared optical fibre sensor for the detection of carbon monoxide exhaust emissions Pages 13-17 Jim Mulrooney, John Clifford, Colin Fitzpatrick, Paul Chambers and Elfed Lewis

5.	A biocompatible Parylene thermal flow sensing array Pages 18-28 Ellis Meng, Po-Ying Li and Yu-Chong Tai

6.	Development of high-accuracy image centroiding algorithm for CMOS-based digital sun sensors Pages 29-37 Young-Keun Chang and Byung-Hoon Lee

7.	A wireless biosensor using microfabricated phage-interfaced magnetoelastic particles Pages 38-47 Michael L. Johnson, Jiehui Wan, Shichu Huang, Zhongyang Cheng, Valery A. Petrenko, Dong-Joo Kim, I.-Hsuan Chen, James M. Barbaree, Jong Wook Hong and Bryan A. Chin

8.	Microwave nondestructive evaluation of dielectric materials with a metamaterial lens Pages 48-55 D. Shreiber, M. Gupta and R. Cravey

9.	Dynamics and control of a MEMS angle measuring gyroscope Pages 56-63 Sungsu Park, Roberto Horowitz and Chin-Woo Tan

10.	Optical low-coherence reflectometry for a distributed sensor array of fiber Bragg gratings Pages 64-68 Weisheng Liu, Zu-Guang Guan, Guorong Liu, Chunsheng Yan and Sailing He

11.	Top-gate ZnO thin-film transistors with a polymer dielectric designed for ultraviolet optical gating Pages 69-73 Kimoon Lee, Jeong-M. Choi, D.K. Hwang, Min Suk Oh, J.K. Kim, Y. Jung, K. Oh and Seongil Im

12.	Characterization of miniaturized one-side-electrode-type fluid-based inclinometer Pages 74-82 Asrulnizam Bin Abd Manaf, Kazumasa Nakamura and Yoshinori Matsumoto

13.	Simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain with long period grating pairs using low resolution detection Pages 83-89 Samer K. Abi Kaed Bey, Tong Sun and Kenneth T.V. Grattan

14.	Piezoelectric properties of vinylidene fluoride oligomer for use in medical tactile sensor applications Pages 90-96 Kazuto Takashima, Satoshi Horie, Toshiharu Mukai, Kenji Ishida and Kazumi Matsushige

15.	Evaluation of tile–wall bonding integrity based on impact acoustics and support vector machine Pages 97-104 F. Tong, X.M. XU, B.L. Luk and K.P. Liu

Materials and Technology Section

16.	Effect of magnesium doping on the structural and piezoelectric properties of sputtered ZnO thin film Pages 105-108 Walter Water, Yin-Shiang Yan and Teen-Hang Meen

17.	An advanced reactive ion etching process for very high aspect-ratio sub-micron wide trenches in silicon Pages 109-116 Reza Abdolvand and Farrokh Ayazi

18.	Fabrication and characterization of low temperature sintering PMN–PZN–PZT step-down multilayer piezoelectric transformer Pages 117-123 Xiaolian Chao, Zupei Yang, Gang Li and Yaoqiang Cheng

19.	The influence of surface profiles on leakage in room temperature seal-bonding Pages 124-129 Hironao Okada, Toshihiro Itoh and Tadatomo Suga

Actuator Section

20.	A simple technique for automated performance testing of piezoelectric micro-motors by transient motion analysis Pages 130-134 P.J. Rayner, S.A. Wilson, R.W. Whatmore and M.G. Cain

21.	Design and fabrication of medical micro-nebulizer Pages 135-143 Sheng-Chih Shen, Yu-Jen Wang and Yung-Yue Chen

22.	Application of low temperature co-fire ceramics on in-plane micro-generator Pages 144-153 C.T. Pan and Y.J. Chen

23.	The gas flow rate increase obtained by an oscillating piezoelectric actuator on a micronozzle Pages 154-160 R.S. Wiederkehr, M.C. Salvadori, J. Brugger, F.T. Degasperi and M. Cattani

24.	Design of a magnetostrictive (MS) actuator Pages 161-175 A. Grunwald and A.G. Olabi

25.	Feedback control of tri-layer polymer actuators to improve their positioning ability and speed of response Pages 176-184 Qingyu Yao, Gursel Alici and Geoffrey M. Spinks

26.	Mechanical characterization of a dielectric elastomer microactuator with ion-implanted electrodes Pages 185-193 S. Rosset, M. Niklaus, P. Dubois and H.R. Shea

Micromechanics Section

27.	Nonlinear oscillations of piezoelectric microresonators with curved cross-sections Pages 194-200 H. Li, B. Piekarski, D.L. DeVoe and B. Balachandran

28.	Performance of thin film silicon MEMS on flexible plastic substrates Pages 201-206 S.B. Patil, V. Chu and J.P. Conde

29.	A distributed MEMS phase shifter on a low-resistivity silicon substrate Pages 207-212 Jianqun Wang, Thermpon Ativanichayaphong, Wen-Ding Huang, Ying Cai, Alan Davis, Mu Chiao and J.-C. Chiao

30.	Development and experimental characterization of micromachined electromagnetic probes for biological manipulation and stimulation applications Pages 213-221 Murat K. Yapici, Ali E. Ozmetin, Jun Zou and Donald G. Naugle

Systems/Applications Section

31.	Data fusion for defect characterisation using a dual probe system Pages 222-228 R.S. Edwards, A. Sophian, S. Dixon and G.Y. Tian

Erratum

32.	Corrigendum to “Development of a miniaturised hydraulic actuation system for artificial hands” [Sens. Actuators A 141 (2007) 548–557] Page 229 A. Kargov, T. Werner, C. Pylatiuk and S. Schulz