Nanoenergetic silicon as a thrust actuator for jumping microrobots

Technical Digest - Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 126-129

  Currano, L J ^a   Churaman, W ^a,b   Rajkowski, J ^b   Morris, C J ^a   Bergbreiter, S ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; MICROSYSTEMS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SILICON;

MICRO ROBOTS; NANO-POROUS; SILICON CHIP; THRUST ACTUATORS;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 84858442491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.31438/trf.hh2010.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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