Reconfigurable liquid metal circuits by Laplace pressure shaping

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Cumby, Brad L ^a   Hayes, Gerard J ^b   Dickey, Michael D ^b   Justice, Ryan S ^c   Tabor, Christopher E ^c   Heikenfeld, Jason C ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LIQUID METALS; METALS; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRONIC SWITCHES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LAPLACE PRESSURE; MEASUREMENTS OF; RECONFIGURABLE CIRCUITS; RESISTIVE NETWORK; TUNABLE ANTENNA; VACUUM PRESSURE;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

EID: 84868019671     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4764020     Document Type: Article

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