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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2005
Charles Patrick Collier, San Marino, CA (US);
MA Ziyang, Pasandena, CA (US);
Stephen R. Quake, San Marino, CA (US);
Ian R. Shapiro, Pasadena, CA (US);
Lawrence Wade, LaCanada, CA (US);
Charles Patrick Collier, San Marino, CA (US);
Ma Ziyang, Pasandena, CA (US);
Stephen R. Quake, San Marino, CA (US);
Ian R. Shapiro, Pasadena, CA (US);
Lawrence Wade, LaCanada, CA (US);
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for fabricating assembled structures. The method includes providing a tip structure, which has a first end, a second end, and a length defined between the first end and the second end. The second end is a free end. The method includes attaching a nano-sized structure along a portion of the length of the tip structure to extend a total length of the tip structure to include the length of the tip structure and a first length associated with the nano-sized structure. The method includes shortening the nano-sized structure from the first length to a second length. The method also includes pushing the nano-sized structure in a direction parallel to the second length to reduce the second length to a third length of the nano-sized structure along the direction parallel to the second length to cause the nano-sized structure to move along a portion of the length of the tip structure.