Nanorobotic manipulation of carbon nanotubes inside a transimission electron microscope

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 4, Issue PART 1, 2006, Pages 114-119

  Dong, Lixin ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a   Tao, Xinyong ^b   Zhang, Li ^c   Zhang, Xiaobin ^b   Frutiger, Dominic R ^a   Subramanian, Arunkumar ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Nanorobotic manipulation; NEMS; Property characterization; Transmission electron microscope

Indexed keywords

NANOROBOTICS; NEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSIONS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; MULTI-WALLED CNTS; NANO-ROBOTIC MANIPULATION; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; PROPERTY CHARACTERIZATIONS; TEST STRUCTURE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 79961153917     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20060912-3-de-2911.00023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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