 <h5>R</h5>
radial cracking 808
radio-frequency (RF) MEMS 239
radiotherapy 307
radius of gyration 561
Raleigh’s method 348
Raman
– spectra 131, 802
– spectroscopy 800
ramped creep model 890
random access memory (RAM) 28
random access time 900
random force 891
randomly oriented polysilicon 1035
rapid thermal processing (RTP)
1118
raster scan 901
Rayleigh wave 692
Rayleigh–Ritz method 1071
RbBr 397
RC-oscillators 358
reaction kinetics 483
reactive
– lubrication 892
– sealing 1114
– spreading 189
reactive ion etching (RIE) 205, 247,
254
read
– channel 939
– time 908
readback
– rates 932
– signal 940, 941
readout
– electronics 354
– signal 944
receptor binding 295
receptor-ligand
– bond 482
– interaction 484, 545
– unbinding 483
– unbinding force 476
receptor-mediated uptake of synthetic
nanomaterial 296
recognition force microscopy (RFM)
476
recognition force spectroscopy (RFS)
484
recognition imaging 489
recombinant protein therapeutics
285
rectangular cantilever 339, 610, 656
rectifying properties 132
recursive least square algorithm
(RLS) 974
reduced modulus 690
reflection interference contrast
microscopy (RICM) 550
reflectivity 129
relative humidity (RH) 613
– effects of 533, 873, 1004
relative position error signal (RPES)
956
relaxation
– mechanical 457, 848
relaxation time 570–574, 583, 587,
588, 593, 894
relaxation time (T1)
– longitudinal 305
relaxation time (T2)
– transverse 305
release
– long-term of drugs 994
– stiction 1095
– voltage 1062
reliability 831
– long-term 1126
– ofMEMS 995
– testing 1125
relief on a surface 186
remanence 137
remote detection system 354
removable disk 901
repetitive IgG 484
replica molding 833
repulsive force 480
residual
– film stress 1023
– stress 692, 699, 709, 804, 809,
812
– thickness 855
resistive micro-heater 1119
resolution 233, 374
– vertical 331
resonance
– curve detection 339
– frequency 454
– mechanical 591
resonant
– enhancement effects 131
– frequency 373
Resovist 306
response time 467
rest time 869
retardation effect 550, 552
reticuloendothelial system (RES)
296
retractive slips 885
Reynolds hydrodynamic theory of
lubrication 885
RF magnetron sputtering 795
rheological
– characterization 865
– model 469, 664
rhombhedral R-8 706
rigid
– biphenyl chain 853
– disk drive 862, 869
– surface asperities 723
Ritz procedure 1055
RLL (run-length-limited) code 947
RMS roughness 1010
RNA polymerase 747
robust manufacturing 1087
rolling friction 552, 568
root mean square 433
ropes (SWNT) 66
rotary microactuator 958, 993
rotating cylinder 907
rotating strain gauge 1026
rotaxane 13
rough macroscopic contact 885
roughness 558, 559, 566–568, 594
RTP (rapid thermal processing)
MEMS vacuum packaging 1119
Ru(II)-trisbipyridine 13
rule of mixtures 708, 709
run-length-limited (RLL) 947
rupture forces 488