From Carbon Nanotube Springs to Power MEMS: Creating New Capabilities at the Micro and Nano Scales
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Livermore, Carol
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Abstract
Combining new concepts for microsystems with new methods of creating them enables a wide range of
small-scale systems. At one extreme, new concepts for power MEMS combined with precision
micromachining enable high performance MEMS components for applications from power and energy
to high power lasers. At the other extreme, new techniques for micro and nanoscale assembly enable
the creation of a wide range of small-scale systems. This talk will present recent research in these and
related areas from the Micropower and Nanoengineering Laboratory at MIT. In the MEMS area, the
talk will primarily address systems, such as high power MEMS components for lasers. Assembly and
applications of large systems of nanoscale components will be addressed as well, including the
presentation of techniques for assembling systems of microstructures or cells and discussion of recent
experimental and theoretical work on the storage of elastic energy in carbon nanotube springs.
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2010-05-18
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50:42 minutes
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Lecture