Guest editorial: Introduction to the focused section on mechatronics for MEMS and NEMS

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 397-404

  Jalili, Nader ^a   Liu, Peter X ^b   Alici, Gursel ^c   Ferreira, Antoine ^d  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Bourges   (France)

Author keywords

Force; Grippers; Mathematical model; Mechatronics; Microactuators; Sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549137968     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2026008     Document Type: Editorial

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