Ohio Team Reduces Friction in MEMS

Anonymous Coward writes "The EETimes is running a story about an OSU team that has used atomic force microscopes to measure friction in micro-electro-mechanical devices and have developed a method of lubricating the devices with a baked-on (no jokes please) lubricant. Apparently this lubricant is better than vapor-deposited diamond coatings at these minute scales. Read the article here."

Cool

[milgram]

Closer to non-friction surfaces (NOT POSSIBLE)

Re:Cool

[JoeGee]

Regarding mechanical friction, see http://www.eetimes.com/story/technology/OEG2001010 8S0690 [eetimes.com].

OSU website

[SonCorn]

You can see more information on this from the Website of the actual team that is working on this at:

http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/cmcl/ [ohio-state.edu]