Low-height sharp edged patterns for capillary self-alignment assisted hybrid microassembly

Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Chang, Bo ^a   Shah, Ali ^a   Routa, Iiris ^a   Lipsanen, Harri ^a   Zhou, Quan ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contact line pinning; Droplet self alignment; Hybrid microassembly; Self assembly; Sharp edge

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; DROPS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBOTICS; SURFACE TENSION; TOPOLOGY;

COARSE POSITIONING; CONTACT LINE PINNING; DROPLET SELF ASSEMBLIES; MICRO ASSEMBLY; SELF ALIGNMENT; SELF-ALIGNMENT PROCESS; SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE; SHARP EDGES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84895417071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12213-014-0073-0     Document Type: Article

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