PMID- 31867518
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 2470-1343 (Electronic)
IS  - 2470-1343 (Linking)
VI  - 4
IP  - 25
DP  - 2019 Dec 17
TI  - Magnetically Actuated Tunable Soft Electronics.
PG  - 21242-21250
LID - 10.1021/acsomega.9b02716 [doi]
AB  - Variable electronics are vital in tunable filters, transmitters, and receivers, 
      among other applications. In addition, the ability to remotely tune soft 
      capacitors, resistors, and inductors is important for applications in which the 
      device is not accessible. In this paper, a uniform method of remotely tuning the 
      characteristic properties of soft electronic units (i.e. inductance, capacitance, 
      and resistance) is presented. In this method, magnetically actuated ferrofluid 
      mixed with iron powder is dragged in a soft fluidic channel made of 
      polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to tune the electrical properties of the component. 
      The effects of position and quantity of the ferrofluid and iron powder are 
      studied over a range of frequencies, and the changes in inductance, capacitance, 
      resistance, quality factor, and self-resonance frequency are reported 
      accordingly. The position plays a bigger role in changing inductance, 
      capacitance, and resistance. With the proposed design, the inductance can be 
      changed by 20.9% from 3.31 muH for planar inductors and 23% from 0.44 muH for axial 
      inductors. In addition, the capacitance of capacitors and impedance of resistors 
      can be changed by 12.7% from 2.854 pF and 185.3% from 0.353 kOmega, respectively. 
      Furthermore, the changes in the inductance, capacitance, and resistance follow 
      "quasi-linear profiles" with the input during position and quantity effect 
      experiments.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 American Chemical Society.
FAU - Ilami, Mahdi
AU  - Ilami M
AD  - School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and School of Electrical, 
      Computer and Energy Engineering, The Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 
      85281, United States.
FAU - Ahmed, Reza J
AU  - Ahmed RJ
AD  - School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and School of Electrical, 
      Computer and Energy Engineering, The Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 
      85281, United States.
FAU - Edwards, Dakota
AU  - Edwards D
AD  - School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and School of Electrical, 
      Computer and Energy Engineering, The Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 
      85281, United States.
FAU - Thompson, Erskine
AU  - Thompson E
AD  - School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and School of Electrical, 
      Computer and Energy Engineering, The Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 
      85281, United States.
FAU - Zeinolabedinzadeh, Saeed
AU  - Zeinolabedinzadeh S
AD  - School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and School of Electrical, 
      Computer and Energy Engineering, The Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 
      85281, United States.
FAU - Marvi, Hamidreza
AU  - Marvi H
AD  - School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and School of Electrical, 
      Computer and Energy Engineering, The Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 
      85281, United States.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191206
PL  - United States
TA  - ACS Omega
JT  - ACS omega
JID - 101691658
PMC - PMC6921637
COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interest.
EDAT- 2019/12/24 06:00
MHDA- 2019/12/24 06:01
PMCR- 2019/12/06
CRDT- 2019/12/24 06:00
PHST- 2019/08/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/11/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/12/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/12/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/12/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/12/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1021/acsomega.9b02716 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - ACS Omega. 2019 Dec 6;4(25):21242-21250. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02716. 
      eCollection 2019 Dec 17.