IMPROVED SENSITIVITY OF RESONANT MASS SENSOR BASED ON MICRO TILTING PLATE AND MICRO CANTILEVER

Vapor sensors have been used for many years. Their applications range from detection of toxic gases and dangerous chemicals in industrial environments, the monitoring of landmines and other explosives, to the monitoring of atmospheric conditions. Microelectrical mechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication technologies provide a way to fabricate sensitive devices. One type of MEMS vapor sensors is based on mass changing detection and the sensors have a functional chemical coating for absorbing the chemical vapor of interest. The principle of the resonant mass sensor is that the resonant frequency will experience a large change due to a small mass of gas vapor change. This thesis is trying to build analytical micro-cantilever and micro-tilting plate models, which can make optimization more efficient. Several objectives need to be accomplished: (1) Build an analytical model of MEMS resonant mass sensor based on micro-tilting plate with the effects of air damping. (2) Perform design optimization of micro-tilting plate with a hole in the center. (3) Build an analytical model of MEMS resonant mass sensor based on micro-cantilever with the effects of air damping. (4) Perform design optimization of micro-cantilever by COMSOL. Analytical models of micro-tilting plate with a hole in the center are compared with a COMSOL simulation model and show good agreement. The analytical models have been used to do design optimization that maximizes sensitivity. The micro-cantilever analytical model does not show good agreement with a COMSOL simulation model. To further investigate, the air damping pressures at several points on the micro-cantilever have been compared between analytical model and COMSOL model. The analytical model is inadequate for two reasons. First, the model’s boundary condition assumption is not realistic. Second, the deflection shape of the cantilever changes with the hole size, and the model does not account for this. Design optimization of micro-cantilever is done by COMSOL.

Segmentation and kinematics of the North America-Caribbean plate boundary offshore Hispaniola

We explored the submarine portions of the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden Fault zone (EPGFZ) and the Septentrional–Oriente Fault zone (SOFZ) along the Northern Caribbean plate boundary using high-resolution multibeam echo-sounding and shallow seismic reflection. The bathymetric data shed light on poorly documented or previously unknown submarine fault zones running over 200 km between Haiti and Jamaica (EPGFZ) and 300 km between the Dominican Republic and Cuba (SOFZ). The primary plate-boundary structures are a series of strike-slip fault segments associated with pressure ridges, restraining bends, step overs and dogleg offsets indicating very active tectonics. Several distinct segments 50–100 km long cut across pre-existing structures inherited from former tectonic regimes or bypass recent morphologies formed under the current strike-slip regime. Along the most recent trace of the SOFZ, we measured a strike-slip offset of 16.5 km, which indicates steady activity for the past ~1.8 Ma if its current GPS-derived motion of 9.8 ± 2 mm a−1 has remained stable during the entire Quaternary.

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Efeito do 1-MCP no perfil de transcritos diferencias de genes da parede celular, e fotossíntese em maçã cv. Gala armazenada em atmosfera controlada.

Maçãs cv. Gala são conhecidas por apresentarem bom potencial de armazenamento em atmosfera controlada (AC) associada a refrigeração. Condições de 1% de O2; 2% de CO2; 0°C ± 0,5; 90% UR ± 5% são relatadas por preservarem a firmeza de polpa por até nove meses. Entretanto, logo após a saída da AC, uma perda da firmeza é observada, resultando em perdas na qualidade dos frutos durante o transporte e comercialização. Desse modo, o 1-metilciclopropeno (1-MCP) é utilizado com sucesso em conjunto com a AC, por ser capaz de manter a firmeza de polpa de maçãs mesmo após a saída do armazenamento. O objetivo do trabalho foi elucidar mecanismos pelo qual o 1-MCP preserva a firmeza de polpa da maçã armazenada em AC.

Efeito do 1-MCP no desenvolvimento de podridões em maçã.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito do 1-MCP em maçãs MaxiGala expostas a diferentes atmosferas (ATM), no progresso da doença ocasionada por Botrytis cinerea e Cryptosporiopsis brasiliensis.

Ação do 1-MCP e do MeJa sobre a incidência de podridões em uvas 'Itália' minimamente processadas.

2011

Avaliação da suculência de maçãs, cv. Gala, tratadas com 1-mcp e armazenadas sob atmosfera refrigerada.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a suculência de maçãs armazenadas sob atmosfera refrigerada, com e sem aplicação de 1-MCP, partindo-se da hipótese de que a inibição parcial da ação do etileno contribui para preservar a suculência dos frutos.