Nanorobotic assembly of two-dimensional structures

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4_1998, Issue , 1998, Pages 3368-3374

  Requicha, A A G ^a   Baur, C ^a   Bugacov, A ^a   Gazen, B C ^a   Koel, B ^a   Madhukar, A ^a   Ramachandran, T R ^a   Resch, R ^a   Will, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICA; SILICATE MINERALS; MICROSCOPES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES;

ARBITRARY PATTERNS; CONNECTED STRUCTURES; NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANOROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SILICON SUBSTRATES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

GOLD NANOPARTICLES; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NEMS); NANOROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPES;

EID: 0031645825     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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