Micro and nano assembly using dielectrophoretic forces

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, 2005

Volumn PART A, Issue , 2005, Pages 173-182

  Nelson, Bradley J ^a   Subramanian, Arunkumar ^a   Vikramaditya, Barmeshwar ^b   Dong, Lixin ^a   Bell, Dominik ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTROPHORETIC FORCES; INTERMOLECULAR FORCE; MICROTWEEZERS; NANO ASSEMBLY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROSTATICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 27744558398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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