Design and fabrication of compliant micromechanisms and structures with negative Poisson's ratio

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Larsen, Ulrik Darling ^a   Sigmund, Ole ^a,b,c   Bouwstra, Siebe ^a,d,e,f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant micromechanism; Fast prototyping; Negative Poisson's ratio

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DESIGN; ELASTICITY; FABRICATION; MICROMACHINING; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

POISSON RATIO;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

EID: 0031169571     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/84.585787     Document Type: Article

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