Contact: Emil Venere
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Purdue University

Monolithic Comb Drive

Caption: This illustration depicts a tiny device called a monolithic comb drive, which might be used as a high-precision "nanopositioner" for such uses as biological sensors, computer hard drives and other possible applications. The device was created by Jason Vaughn Clark, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering at Purdue University.

Credit: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

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