Towards nanotube linear servomotors

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 228-235

  Dong, Lixin ^a,b   Nelson, Bradley J ^a,b   Fukuda, Toshio ^a,c   Arai, Fumihito ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Field emission; Linear servomotor; Position sensing; Telescoping nanotube

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSIONS; LINEAR SERVOMOTORS; POSITION SENSING; TELESCOPING NANOTUBES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRON EMISSION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; POSITION CONTROL; SERVOMOTORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33746458527     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2006.875551     Document Type: Review

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