Controllable high-speed rotation of nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 24, 2005, Pages

  Fan, D L ^a,b   Zhu, F Q ^b   Cammarata, R C ^a   Chien, C L ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED ROTATION SPEEDS; FLUIDIC DRAG FORCES; MULTIPLE ELECTRODES; VERSATILE METHODS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DUST; ELECTRODES; MAGNETIC DEVICES; ROTATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 27744475358     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.247208     Document Type: Article

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