Theoretical analysis based on particle electro-mechanics for Au Pearl Chain Formation

2007 7th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology - IEEE-NANO 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1217-1221

  Li, Minglin ^a,c,d   Fei, Fei ^a,d   Qu, Yanli ^a,b   Dong, Zaili ^a   Li, Wen J ^a,b   Wang, Yuechao ^a  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dielectrophoresis; Gold nano particles; Nano assemby; Nano manipulation; Pearl Chain Formation

Indexed keywords

AU NANO-PARTICLES; BROWNIAN MOTIONS; CHAIN FORMATION; DEP FORCES; DIELECTROPHORESIS; DIELECTROPHORESIS FORCE; ELECTRO-MECHANICS; ELECTRO-OSMOSIS; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; GOLD NANO-PARTICLES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NANO-ASSEMBY; NANO-MANIPULATION; NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PEARL CHAIN FORMATION; SCALING LAWS; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GOLD; MECHANICS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPEED; TECHNOLOGY;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 52949124100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2007.4601402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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