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New Editorial Board Members

Dr. Rebeca Martínez Vázquez
Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, Italy

Interests: femtosecond laser micromachining; lab on a chip; optofluidics; integrated optics
Prof. Dr. Xiaojing Mu
Chongqing University, China

Interests: nano/microelectromechanical systems (N/MEMS); triboelectric; sensors; micro/nano-scale energy harvesting; pyroelectric nanogenerators; piezoelectric

To see the full list of Editorial Board Members, please click here.

Featured Papers

     
  An Automated Centrifugal Microfluidic Platform for Efficient Multistep Blood Sample Preparation and Clean-Up towards Small Ion-Molecule Analysis

Yuting Hou et al.

  Printing MEMS: Application of Inkjet Techniques to the Manufacturing of Inertial Accelerometers

Roberto Bernasconi et al.

 
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  Thomson–Einstein’s Tea Leaf Paradox Revisited: Aggregation in Rings

Kirill Kolesnik et al.

  Patterning Techniques in Coplanar Micro/Nano Capacitive Sensors

Seokwon Joo et al.

 
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Call for Papers

Piezoelectric Materials, Devices and Systems

edited by Hongping Hu, Chunli Zhang and Jianguo Chen

submission deadline 31 May 2024
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III-V Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Process Technology

edited by Hsin-Chu Chen, Hao-Chung Kuo and Yi-Jen Chiu

submission deadline 31 July 2024
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Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, which provides an advanced forum for studies on micro/nano-scaled structures, materials, devices and systems.

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