Multimodal electrothermal silicon microgrippers for nanotube manipulation

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-85

  Andersen, Karin Nordström ^a   Petersen, D H ^a   Carlson, K ^a   Molhave K ^a   Sardan, Ozlem ^a   Horsewell, A ^a   Eichhorn, Volkmar ^b   Fatikow, Sergej ^b   Bøggild, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Microgrippers; Nanomanipulation; Pick and place

Indexed keywords

GRIPPERS; MANIPULATORS; MICROMANIPULATORS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES;

2-D ARRAYS; AS-GROWN; KEY COMPONENTS; MICROGRIPPER; MICROGRIPPERS; MULTI MODALS; NANO-MANIPULATION SYSTEMS; NANO-OBJECTS; NANOMANIPULATION; PICK-AND-PLACE; SILICON MICROFABRICATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 59049086029     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.2006558     Document Type: Article

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