Magnetic levitation assisted guide for a linear micro-actuator

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3785-3787

  Ruffert, Christine ^a   Gehrking, Ralf ^a   Ponick, Bernd ^a   Gatzen, Hans H ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic guide; Magnetic levitation; Micro actuator; Micro coil; Thin film technology

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MOTORS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MICROACTUATORS;

MAGNETIC GUIDES; MICROCOILS;

MAGNETIC LEVITATION;

EID: 33750603616     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.879160     Document Type: Article

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