Fabrication and characterization of an SU-8 gripper actuated by a shape memory alloy thin film

By I. Roch, P. Bidaud, D. Collard, L. Buchaillot. 2003

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fd6f8d67a3564407b82d7d73985bf55234f9d969

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Soon-Seng Ho
2. C. Low
3. Nam-Trung Nguyen

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1. Nam-Trung Nguyen

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Nam-Trung Nguyen
2. Michael S. Triantafyllou

Citations in the corpus

• Electrothermally activated SU-8 microgripper for single cell manipulation in solution (2005, background): “Shape memory alloys-based grippers [12], [13] could potentially be used in liquid environment, but they can cycle only a few times before complete immobilization.”
• Shape-memory polymers for microelectromechanical systems (2004, background): “Numerous researchers have utilized shape-memory alloys [2]–[ 5 ] and ceramics [6]–[10] in novel MEMS applications.”
• Design and Characterization of Artificial Haircell Sensor for Flow Sensing With Ultrahigh Velocity and Angular Sensitivity (2007, background): “The formation of boundary layer has significant effect on the flow velocity profile along the cilium at the microscale.”
• A polymeric microgripper with integrated thermal actuators (2004, methodology): “Since polymers such as SU-8 are not electrically conducting, only external actuators such as a pneumatic actuator [6] or SMA actuator [7] have been used with the passive SU-8 parts.”