Electrostatic fringe-field actuation for liquid-metal droplets

Digest of Technical Papers - International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 705-708

  Sen, Prosenjit ^a   Kim, Chang Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CAPACITANCE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC ACCIDENTS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

CAPACITIVE DRIVES; CRITICAL FORCE; FRINGE-FIELD ACTUATION; LIQUID-METAL (LM) DROPLETS;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 27544489849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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