Fabrication of micro tactile sensor for the measurement of micro-scale local elasticity

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 202-207

  Murayama, Yoshinobu ^a   Omata, Sadao ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact compliance; Micro tactile sensor; Phase shift method; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GLASS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILICONES; STIFFNESS;

CONTACT COMPLIANCE; MICRO TACTILE SENSOR (MTS); PHASE SHIFT METHOD;

MICROSENSORS;

EID: 0942299400     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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