Micro- and nanomechatronics

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 13-22

  Fukuda, Toshio ^a   Nakajima, Masahiro ^a   Ahmad, Mohd Ridzuan ^b   Shen, Yajing ^a   Kojima, Masaru ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; NANO-BIOLOGY; NANOMECHATRONICS; NANOROBOTIC MANIPULATION SYSTEMS;

NANOROBOTICS;

EID: 78650255721     PISSN: 19324529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIE.2010.938721     Document Type: Article

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