Design of a capillary gripper for a submillimetric application

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 198, Issue , 2006, Pages 3-10

  Lambert, Pierre ^a   Seigneur, Frank ^b   Koelemeijer, Sandra ^b   Jacot, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capillary forces; Microassembly; Submillimetric application; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

GRIPPERS; SURFACE TENSION;

CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY GRIPPERS; FORCE MODEL; INTERNAL CHANNEL; MICRO ASSEMBLY; PICK AND PLACE; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 33749166632     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-31277-3_1     Document Type: Article

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