Assembly of nanodevices with carbon nanotubes through nanorobotic manipulations

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1803-1818

  Fukuda, Toshio ^a   Arai, Fumihito ^a   Dong, Lixin ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs); Nanoassembly; Nanodevices; Nanorobotic manipulations

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOASSEMBLY; NANODEVICES; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NEMS); NANOROBOTIC MANIPULATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 3142736736     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.818334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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