Abstract: As micromanipulation technologies advance toward higher integration and multifunctionality, achieving precise control of multiscale objects within a unified platform has become a pressing ...

Abstract: This study focuses on microwave systems in food processing, with emphasis on coffee bean roasting. Through electromagnetic field and heat conduction simulations using COMSOL Multiphysics ...

FIB Gym wraps a physics-based focused ion beam (FIB) milling simulator into an OpenAI Gymnasium reinforcement-learning environment. An RL agent controls beam position, scan area, depth target, and ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Scaling down for scaling up: Team members Robert Niffenegger (left) and Christopher Caron in the trapped ion quantum computing and photonics lab at UMass Amherst. (Courtesy: Derrick Zellmann for UMass ...