NDLI: Shaping electrodes for ultrahigh precision dielectrophoretic manipulation of carbon nanotubes

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xu, D. Subramanian, A. Dong, L.X. Nelson, B.J.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. of Robot. & Intell. Syst. (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich (Xu, D.; Subramanian, A.; Dong, L.X.; Nelson, B.J.)
Abstract	To achieve ultrahigh precision dielectrophoretic (DEP) manipulation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a novel technique is investigated both theoretically and experimentally by shaping the local geometries of nanoelectrodes to control the electrohydrodynamic behavior of CNTs. Motion trajectories and positions of CNTs assembled on electrodes are predicted based on calculated DEP forces and torques. Both simulation and experimental results show that the geometries of two opposing electrodes significantly affect the precision and robustness with which CNTs can be deposited. Investigation of an electrode array verifies our model and demonstrates that the spacing between neighboring electrode pairs should be larger than twice the width of electrodes to avoid overlapping of electric fields and imbalance of DEP forces; otherwise unequally distributed electric fields and DEP forces induce a significant number of assembly failures in the array.
Starting Page	8
Ending Page	13
File Size	1055760
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424420575
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2008.4650723
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-09-22
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Electrodes Electric fields Force Dielectrophoresis Torque Assembly Arrays
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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