Cooling strategies for high performance miniature wireless robots designed to operate at the nanoscale

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 148-151

  Martel, S ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Cooling; Embedded computing; Helium; Instruments; Pipelines; Robots; Throughput; Uncertainty; Water heating

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COOLING; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; FLEET OPERATIONS; HELIUM; INSTRUMENTS; NANOROBOTICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PIPELINES; ROBOTS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THROUGHPUT;

COOLING METHODS; COOLING STRATEGY; EMBEDDED COMPUTING; HELIUM ATMOSPHERE; MINIATURE ROBOTS; NANO-SCALE OPERATIONS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER HEATING;

NANOROBOTS;

EID: 34547435300     PISSN: 19449399     EISSN: 19449380     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2003.1231737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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