Dielectrophoretic assembly of carbon nanofiber nanoelectromechanical devices

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 570-574

  Evoy, Stephane ^a,d   Riegelman, Michael A ^b,e   Naguib, Nevin ^c   Ye, Haihui ^c,f   Jaroenapibal, Papot ^c   Luzzi, David E ^b,c,g,h   Gogotsi, Yury ^b,c,f,i,j,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Defense Science Study Group ^*

^h Defense Science Study Group

ⁱ AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^j World Academy of Ceramics

^k International Institute for the Science of Sintering

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Author keywords

Detectors; Materials processing; Microelectromechanical systems; Microresonators; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; MATERIALS PROCESSING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICRORESONATORS;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CARBON FIBERS; DETECTORS; ELECTROPHORESIS; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RESONATORS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 26644439804     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2005.851404     Document Type: Article

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