Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields
Abstract A new kind of nanodevice that acts like tweezers through remote actuation by an external magnetic field is designed. Such device is meant to mechanically grab micrometric objects. The nanotweezers are built by using a top-down approach and are made of two parallelepipedic microelements, at...
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doaj-ad1847a338de442e9d7c4e52b0f7a3112020-12-08T00:18:21ZengNature Publishing GroupScientific Reports2045-23222017-03-01711910.1038/s41598-017-00537-6Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fieldsCécile Iss0Guillermo Ortiz1Alain Truong2Yanxia Hou3Thierry Livache4Roberto Calemczuk5Philippe Sabon6Eric Gautier7Stéphane Auffret8Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu9Nikita Strelkov10Hélène Joisten11Bernard Dieny12Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXUniv. Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SXAbstract A new kind of nanodevice that acts like tweezers through remote actuation by an external magnetic field is designed. Such device is meant to mechanically grab micrometric objects. The nanotweezers are built by using a top-down approach and are made of two parallelepipedic microelements, at least one of them being magnetic, bound by a flexible nanohinge. The presence of an external magnetic field induces a torque on the magnetic elements that competes with the elastic torque provided by the nanohinge. A model is established in order to evaluate the values of the balanced torques as a function of the tweezers opening angles. The results of the calculations are confronted to the expected values and validate the overall working principle of the magnetic nanotweezers.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00537-6 |
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Cécile Iss Guillermo Ortiz Alain Truong Yanxia Hou Thierry Livache Roberto Calemczuk Philippe Sabon Eric Gautier Stéphane Auffret Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu Nikita Strelkov Hélène Joisten Bernard Dieny |
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Cécile Iss Guillermo Ortiz Alain Truong Yanxia Hou Thierry Livache Roberto Calemczuk Philippe Sabon Eric Gautier Stéphane Auffret Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu Nikita Strelkov Hélène Joisten Bernard Dieny Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields Scientific Reports |
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Cécile Iss Guillermo Ortiz Alain Truong Yanxia Hou Thierry Livache Roberto Calemczuk Philippe Sabon Eric Gautier Stéphane Auffret Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu Nikita Strelkov Hélène Joisten Bernard Dieny |
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Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields |
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Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields |
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Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields |
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Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields |
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Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields |
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fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields |
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Abstract A new kind of nanodevice that acts like tweezers through remote actuation by an external magnetic field is designed. Such device is meant to mechanically grab micrometric objects. The nanotweezers are built by using a top-down approach and are made of two parallelepipedic microelements, at least one of them being magnetic, bound by a flexible nanohinge. The presence of an external magnetic field induces a torque on the magnetic elements that competes with the elastic torque provided by the nanohinge. A model is established in order to evaluate the values of the balanced torques as a function of the tweezers opening angles. The results of the calculations are confronted to the expected values and validate the overall working principle of the magnetic nanotweezers. |
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