...N. J. Graf; M. T. Bower For this work, a peristaltic micropump was fabricated. Actuation of the micropump was accomplished with piezoelectric cantilevers. To date, a minimal number of soft polymer-based micropump designs, have explored the use of piezoelectric materials as actuators. The fluidic...

... used a pneumatically actuated polyethylene terephthalate (PET) monolithic electrode actuator using pressurized air (0–200 kPa) for actuation. The prototype actuators consisted of PET tubes with an ID of 365 μ m and a wall thickness of 58 μ m . Force calculations using cantilever beam bending theory...

... of the microcantilever becomes critical. In this paper, we are considering to achieve this by geometric variation of the cantilever. The sensitivity of the cantilever was improved so that the device can sense the presence of antigen even if the magnitude of surface-stresses over the microcantilever was very small. We...