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Introduction
Due to the developments in nanotechnology and biotechnology in last two decades, handling nanometer scale entities has become a critical issue. Since the human sensing, precision and size are not sufficient to...
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Instrumentation Issues of an AFM Based Nanorobotic System
While the atomic force microscope (AFM) was mainly developed to image the topography of a sample, it has been discovered as a powerful tool also for nanomanipulation applications within the last decade. A vari...
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Teleoperation Based AFM Manipulation Control
Teleoperationwith haptic feedback is a promising solution for nanoscale operations, for both educational purposes and high precision manipulation tasks. It is well understood that interactions and forces among...
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Applications of AFM Based Nanorobotic Systems
This chapter deals with potential applications of atomic force microscopy based robotic system. In a first part, a flexible robotic system developed for multi-scale manipulation and assembly from nanoscale to ...
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Descriptions and Challenges of AFM Based Nanorobotic Systems
Nanorobotics means literally the study of robots that are nanoscale in typical size, i.e. nanorobots,which have yet to be realized. Generally, nanorobots are large robots capable of manipulation nanoscale obje...
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Nanomechanics of AFM Based Nanomanipulation
Nanotechnology, which aims at the ideal miniaturization of devices and machines down to atomic and molecular sizes has been a recent hot topic as a promising high technology for the forthcoming century. By pre...
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Automated Control of AFM Based Nanomanipulation
Fabricating microstructures has been investigated for over a decade. Self-sustained electromechanical systems in these small scales are becoming more and more of a necessity to make further scientific explorat...