A multi-walled carbon nanotube-aluminum bimorph nanoactuator

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Sul, Onejae ^a   Yang, Eui Hyeok ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION FORCES; ALUMINUM FILMS; LATERAL FORCE MICROSCOPIES; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOACTUATOR; PULSED LASERS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

ALUMINUM; CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; FILM; LASER; MICROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROMANIPULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 65449140602     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/9/095502     Document Type: Article

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