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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"micro-manipulation"”.
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Micro-Manipulation and Bandwidth Characterization of Ionic Polymer Actuators
… future experimentation with ionic polymers for micro-manipulation applications. The simplicity of integral control also eliminated the need for cumbersome model derivations and control system designs, reducing the time necessary to implement and test an actuator. Through the use of this control …
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Design and optimization of a macro-micro manipulator featuring a 3-UPS compliant parallel mechanism
Micromanipulation in microtechnology is highly needed for microfabrication and biomedical applications. Specifically, high manipulation resolution combined with accurate macromotions plays a more crucial role especially in the production of semi-conductors, assembly of integrated circuits as well …
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Simulations and Control of Artificial Microswimmers in Blood
Artificial microswimmers are micron-sized devices that can propel in viscous fluids. Their potential applications are numerous, including targeted drug delivery, imaging, microsurgery, micro-sensing, assisted fertilization and micro-manipulation. To achieve these tasks, artificial microswimmers …
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Applications of Optical Manipulation for Low Cost Implementation, Beam Shaping and Biophysical Force Measurements
… variety of research fields requiring non-contact micro- manipulation. An increasing number of these fields are turning to optical tweezers as a solution, owing to their high spatial and temporal resolution. Optical tweezers have the ability to quantitively exert and measure forces on the …
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Strategies for Enhanced Genetic Analysis of Trace DNA from Touch DNA Evidence and Household Dust
… overcome these obstacles presented by LTDNA, a micro-manipulation and combined cell lysis/direct PCR amplification technique has been developed that is sensitive enough to obtain full or probative STR profiles from single or clumped bio-particles collected from touch DNA and dust evidence. …