Fig. 5: Micro-mechanical-bits (µM-bits) as mechanical memory devices at the microscale enabled by DLW and micro-molding with a multiple-layer process. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Micro-mechanical-bits (µM-bits) as mechanical memory devices at the microscale enabled by DLW and micro-molding with a multiple-layer process.

From: Creating three-dimensional magnetic functional microdevices via molding-integrated direct laser writing

Fig. 5

a Schematics showing the working mechanism and design of the µM-bits. Blue arrows mark the B field direction needed to align the stopper. b double-layer µM-bits configurations and the corresponding microscopic photo of each status. Scale bars: 100 µm. c Video (Supplementary Movie 8) frames of the compressing progress of the double-layer µM-bits under each state. Interlayers marked by red arrow have displacement in the shear direction. Scale bars: 100 µm. d The force-displacement curves of both single-layer and double-layer µM-bits. The force is measured from nine devices and averaged for plotting. The shaded area denotes the range of measured curves. Low displacement and low force region (dashed area) is zoomed in and the average curve of each sample is plotted for clarity.

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