Bartending lessons for microassembly
Peter Weiss
Engineers have demonstrated the feasibility of
quickly assembling identical microcircuit components by
agitating subunits in a liquid.
References:
Zheng, W., P. Buhlmann, and H.O.
Jacobs. 2004. Sequential shape-and-solder-directed
self-assembly of functional microsystems. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 101(Aug.
31):12814-12817. Abstract available at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/35/12814.
Sources:
Heiko O. Jacobs
Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of
Minnesota
200 Union Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN
55455
Web site: http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/hjacobs/
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