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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2006
Joanna Aizenberg, New Providence, NJ (US);
Paul Robert Kolodner, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Thomas Nikita Krupenkin, Warren, NJ (US);
Oleksandr Sydorenko, Painted Post, NY (US);
Joseph Ashley Taylor, Springfield, NJ (US);
Joanna Aizenberg, New Providence, NJ (US);
Paul Robert Kolodner, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Thomas Nikita Krupenkin, Warren, NJ (US);
Oleksandr Sydorenko, Painted Post, NY (US);
Joseph Ashley Taylor, Springfield, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a substrate having a surface with a volume-tunable-material on the surface and fluid-support-structures over the surface and partially embedded in the volume-tunable-material. Each of said fluid-support-structures has at least one dimension of about 1 millimeter or less, and the fluid-support-structures are moveable in response to a volume transition of the volume-tunable-material.