Freestanding Membranes of Cross-Linked Gold Nanoparticles: Novel Functional Materials for Electrostatic Actuators

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 15123-15128

  Schlicke, Hendrik ^a   Battista, Daniela ^a,c   Kunze, Svenja ^a   Schröter, Clemens J ^a   Eich, Manfred ^b   Vossmeyer, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

actuator; electrostatic; freestanding; gold; membrane; MEMS; nanoparticle; NEMS

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; GOLD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEMS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NEMS;

CYLINDRICAL CAVITIES; ELECTROSTATIC MODELING; ELECTROSTATICALLY DRIVEN; FREE STANDING MEMBRANES; FREESTANDING; GOLD NANOPARTICLES (GNPS); NOVEL FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84937718622     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02691     Document Type: Article

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