Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 387-442

  Hänggi, Peter ^a,b   Marchesoni, Fabio ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTIONS; BROWNIAN MOTORS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; DIFFUSIVE PARTICLES; DYNAMICAL SYMMETRIES; EXTERNAL INPUTS; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; IN BUILDINGS; INTERACTING PARTICLES; MAGNETIC VORTICES; MICRO-FLUIDIC; MOLECULAR MACHINERIES; MOLECULAR MOTORS; MOTION OF PARTICLES; NANO-SCALE; NEW APPLICATIONS; NOISE RECTIFICATIONS; OPTICAL TRAPS; QUANTUM BROWNIAN MOTIONS; QUANTUM DOMAINS; SELECTIVE CONTROLS; SINGLE PARTICLES; SUBMICRON SCALE; SYSTEMS POSSESSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEVICES; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

MOTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 64349105027     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.387     Document Type: Article

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