A nanogripper employing aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 389-393

  Jang, Jae Eun ^a   Cha, Seung Nam ^a   Choi, Youngjin ^b   Kang, Dae Joon ^c   Hasko, David G ^b   Jung, Jae Eun ^a   Kim, Jong Min ^a   Amaratunga, Gehan A J ^b  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Nanoelectromechanical switch; Nanogripper

Indexed keywords

AMPEROMETRIC SENSORS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOROBOTICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; ROBOTICS; TRIODES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

BASE STRUCTURE; CARBON NANOTUBE; DRIVING CONDITIONS; ELECTRICAL DAMAGES; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; LOW BIAS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MOVING PARTS; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SWITCH; NANOGRIPPER; POWER SAVINGS; TRIODE STRUCTURES; VAN DER WAALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 48849090757     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.926331     Document Type: Article

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