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MEMS and Nanotechnology , Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics , the eighth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:

Small-Scale Plasticity

MEMS and Electronic Packaging

Mechanics of Graphene

Interfacial Mechanics

Methods in Measuring Small-Scale Displacements

Organic and Inorganic Nanowires

AFM and Resonant-Based Methods

Thin Films and Nano fibers

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Newly Discovered Pile Up Effects During Nanoindentation.- Spring Constant Characterization of a Thermally Tunable MEMS Regressive Spring.- Shape Optimization of Cantilevered Devices for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting.- Bonded Hemishell Approach to Encapsulate Microdevices in Spheroidal Packages.- Development of an Infrared Direct Viewer Based on a MEMS Focal Plane Array.- Modeling and Testing RF Meta-Atom Designs for Rapid Metamaterial Prototyping.- Pyroelectric AlN Thin Films Used as a MEMS IR Sensing Material.- In Situ Energy Loss and Internal Friction Measurement of Nanocrystalline Copper Thin Films Under Different Temperature.- Effect of Current Density and Magnetic Field on the Growth and Morphology of Nickel Nanowires.

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