Micro-fabricated Ionic conductive polymer film actuators for aqueous micromanipulation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4936, Issue , 2002, Pages 154-158

  Zhou, Wenli ^a   Li, Wen J ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aqueous micromanipulation; Cellular gripper; Ionic conductive polymer film (ICPF); Polymer micro actuator

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTROLYTES; IONIC CONDUCTION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

IONIC CONDUCTIVE POLYMER FILMS (ICPF);

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 0037741828     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.486399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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