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Pierre Lambert
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Publications associées (7)
Surface Tension-driven Self-Alignment
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
Surface tension-driven self-alignment is a passive and highly-accurate positioning mechanism that can significantly simplify and enhance the construction of advanced microsystems. After years of research, demonstrations and developments, the surface engine ...
Royal Society of Chemistry2017Modeling capillary forces for large displacements
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
Originally applied to the accurate, passive positioning of submillimetric devices, recent works proved capillary self-alignment as effective also for larger components and relatively large initial offsets. In this paper, we describe an analytic quasi-stati ...
Springer Verlag2015Capillary Gripping and Self-Alignment: A Route Toward Autonomous Heterogeneous Assembly
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
We present a pick-and-place approach driven by capillarity for highly precise and cost-effective assembly of mesoscopic components onto structured substrates. Based on competing liquid bridges, the technology seamlessly combines programmable capillary gras ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015In-Plane Mode Dynamics of Capillary Self-Alignment
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
We present an experimental study of the complete in-plane dynamics of capillary self-alignment. The two translational (shift) and single rotational (twist) in-plane modes of square millimetric transparent dies bridged to shape-matching receptor sites throu ...
American Chemical Society2014Experimental Characterization of Drobot: Towards Closed-Loop Control
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
This paper presents advances in the development of a microrobotic platform actuated by three liquid droplets in a gaseous environment (Drop-bot or Drobot). Drobot builds on the bubble robotics concept earlier introduced by Lenders [1]. A new platform desig ...
IEEE2014Lateral capillary forces
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
Lateral capillary forces ensuing from perturbed fluid menisci are pivotal to many important technologies, including capillary self-alignment and self-assembly of heterogeneous microsystems. This chapter presents a comprehensive study of the quasi-statics o ...
Springer2013Vertical excitation of axisymmetric liquid bridges
Massimo Mastrangeli, Pierre Lambert
This study presents an analytical model of the dynamics of an axisymmetric liquid bridge confined between two circular pads and subjected to small vertical periodic perturbations. Such system finds important applications in microassembly and microjoint des ...
Elsevier2013