Nanotweezers consisting of carbon nanotubes operating in an atomic force microscope

By S. Akita, Y. Nakayama, S. Mizooka, Y. Takano, T. Okawa, Y. Miyatake, Sigenori Yamanaka, Masashi Tsuji, T. Nosaka. 2001

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Citations in the corpus

• Nonlinear behavior for nanoscale electrostatic actuators with Casimir force (2005, background): “NEMS switches are fundamental building blocks for the design of NEMS applications, such as nanotweezers and some other nanoscale actuators [11,12].”
• Assessing the colloidal properties of engineered nanoparticles in water: case studies from fullerene C60 nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes (2010, background): “[92–94] Alternatively, AFM force measurements between a colloidal probe whose composition is of interest and a ‘lawn’ of ENPs deposited on a flat substrate can be extrapolated to elucidate ENP–ENP and ENP–solid-surface interactions.”
• EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING OF CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED NEMS DEVICES (2005, methodology): “Experimental data concerning the continuous deflection is reported and contrasted with the small deformation regime data reported by Akita et al. (2001) (nanotweezers).”