The propellers may one day provide the designers of micromachines with a source of power for their creations. (discovermagazine.com)
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), the Indiana University School of Optometry, Boston Micromachines and the University of California, Davis, built three of these adaptive optics — optical coherence tomography (AO - OCT) systems, with help from the National Eye Institute. (scientificamerican.com)
Lin and Fleming were able to draw on technology that Sandia has perfected for making micromachines — tiny gears and wheels carved out of silicon using variations of the techniques that produce computer chips. (scientificamerican.com)