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Publications, presentations, awards, laboratory milestones, and future announcements from PIC Lab.

Conceptual contactless positioning platform
July 2026

Hybrid NFAL–electromagnetic dynamics presented at AIM 2026

Prof. S. O. Reza Moheimani presented “Modeling and Control of Z-Dynamics of a Hybrid NFAL–Electromagnetic Platform” at the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics in Genova, Italy. Prosanto Biswas and Vikrant Kumar Singh contributed equally to the work.

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Related research
June 2026

Parallel active microcantilever article accepted

The paper “Parallel Active Microcantilevers for High-Throughput Atomic Force Microscopy” was accepted in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. The work demonstrates simultaneous nanoscale imaging using three independently controlled active MEMS probes.

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July 2025

Hybrid nanopositioner published in Sensors and Actuators A

The three-axis hybrid near-field acoustic–electromagnetic nanopositioner was published in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. The platform demonstrated nanometre-class resolution, millimetre-scale planar travel, and 171 Hz vertical bandwidth.

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