Sensors & Transducers JournalC<strong>on</strong>tentsVolume 103Issue 4April 2009www.sensorsportal.com ISSN 1726-5479Research ArticlesFr<strong>on</strong>tiers <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nanosensor TechnologyVinod Kumar Khanna ......................................................................................................................... 1Dual Comb Unit High-g Accelerometer Based <strong>on</strong> <strong>CMOS</strong>-MEMS TechnologyMehrdad Mottaghi, Farzan Ghalichi, Habib B. Ghavifekr................................................................... 17Modeling <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Micromachined Thermopiles Powered from the Human Body for EnergyHarvesting in Wearable DevicesVladimir Le<strong>on</strong>ov, Ziyang Wang, Paolo Fiorini <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Chris Van Ho<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> .................................................... 29Design <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Development <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Polysilic<strong>on</strong>-based Microhotplate for Gas Sensing Applicati<strong>on</strong>Mahanth Prasad, V. K. Khanna <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Ram Gopal................................................................................ 44Design <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a Capacitive SOI Micromachined AccelerometerWenjing Zhao, Limei Xu. .................................................................................................................... 52Characteristic Features <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> RF MEMS Switches <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>its</str<strong>on</strong>g> Various Applicati<strong>on</strong>sB. Mishra, Z. C. Alex........................................................................................................................... 65Study <strong>on</strong> the <str<strong>on</strong>g>Effect</str<strong>on</strong>g>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Added Mass <strong>on</strong> Mechanical Behavior <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a MicrobeamMohammad Fathalilou, Ghader Rezazadeh, Yashar Alizadeh, Soheil Talebian ............................... 73Titanium Hydride Formati<strong>on</strong> in Current-Biased Titanium Microbolometer <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>Nanobolometer DevicesS. F. Gilmartin, K. Arshak, D. Collins, B. Lane, D. Bain, S. B. Newcomb, B. McCarthy, A. Arshak. . 83Squeeze-Film Damping <str<strong>on</strong>g>Effect</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> Dynamic Pull-in Voltage <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> an Electrostatically-ActuatedMicrobeamHadi Yagubizade, Mohammad Fathalilou, Ghader Rezazadeh, Soheil Talebian .............................. 96Porous Silic<strong>on</strong> Hydrogen Sensor at Room <str<strong>on</strong>g>Temperature</str<strong>on</strong>g>: the <str<strong>on</strong>g>Effect</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Surface Modificati<strong>on</strong><str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Noble Metal C<strong>on</strong>tactsJayita Kanungo, Hiranmay Saha, Sukumar Basu .............................................................................. 102Design <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Analyses <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Electromagnetic MicrogeneratorNibras Awaja, Dinesh Sood, Thurai Vinay. ........................................................................................ 109Dynamic Pull-in Phenomen<strong>on</strong> in the Fully Clamped Electrostatically Actuated RectangularMicroplates C<strong>on</strong>sidering Damping <str<strong>on</strong>g>Effect</str<strong>on</strong>g>sGhader Rezazadeh, Soheil Talebian, Mohammad Fathalilou............................................................ 122Finite Element Analysis <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Static <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Dynamic Pull-In Instability <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a Fixed-Fixed MicroBeam C<strong>on</strong>sidering Damping <str<strong>on</strong>g>Effect</str<strong>on</strong>g>sMohammad Reza Ghazavi, Ghader Rezazadeh, Saber Azizi ........................................................... 132
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Effect</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Polyimide</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Variati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>its</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Curing</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Temperature</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>CMOS</strong> Based CapacitiveHumidity Sensor <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Characterizati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Integrated HeaterB. N. Baliga, D. N. Tiwari,Kamaljeet Singh, Sanjay Verma,K. Nagachenchaiah ............................... 144Sputtered Silic<strong>on</strong> as a Potential Masking Material for Glass Micromachining – A FeasibilityStudyAbhay B. Joshi, Dhananjay Bodas, S. A. Gangal............................................................................... 155Thermo-Mechanical Behavior <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a Bilayer Microbeam Subjected to N<strong>on</strong>linear ElectrostaticPressureMaliheh Pashapour, Seyed-Mehdi Pesteii, Ghader Rezazadeh, Shahriyar Kourav<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>.................... 161Hydrogen <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Methane Resp<strong>on</strong>se <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Pd Gate MOS SensorPreeti P<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>ey, J. K. Srivastava, V. N. Mishra <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> R. Dwivedi........................................................... 171Authors are encouraged to submit article in MS Word (doc) <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Acrobat (pdf) formats by e-mail: editor@sensorsportal.comPlease visit journal’s webpage with preparati<strong>on</strong> instructi<strong>on</strong>s: http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/Submiti<strong>on</strong>.htmInternati<strong>on</strong>al Frequency Sensor Associati<strong>on</strong> (IFSA).