Rotational Brownian motion of magnetically clamped silicon nanoneedle: towards nano-motors fueled by Brownian motion

TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2239-2242

  Altintas, Ersin ^a   Böhringer, Karl F ^b   Fujita, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Magnetic beads; Nano motor; Nanosphere lithography; Rotation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASPECT RATIO; LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETS; MICROSYSTEMS; MOTORS; NANONEEDLES; NANOSENSORS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEEDLES; NONMETALS; SENSORS; SILICON; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); TRANSDUCERS;

BIOMOLECULAR MOTORS; BROWNIAN MOTION; BROWNIAN MOTIONS; COVER GLASSES; ETCHING MASKS; FREE END; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAGNETIC BEADS; MAGNETIC NANOBEADS; NANO-MOTOR; NANOSPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; NEW CLASS; RANDOM MOTIONS; ROTATION; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 50049134579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2007.4300614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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