Millimeter-sized nanomanipulator with sub-nanometer positioning resolution and large force output
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nanomanipulation in space-limited environments (e.g., inside SEM, and particularly in TEM) requires small-sized nano manipulators that are capable of producing sub-nanometer positioning resolutions and large output forces. This paper reports on a millimeter-sized MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) based nano manipulator with a positioning resolution of 0.15 nm and a motion range of plusmn2.55 mum. An amplification mechanism is employed to convert input displacements, generated by conventional electrostatic comb-drive microactuator, to achieve a high positioning resolution on the output side. The device has a high load driving capability, driving a load as high as 98 muN without sacrificing positioning performance. Testing results demonstrate that the mechanism has a high linearity (plusmn2.4%). A capacitive displacement sensor is integrated for detecting input displacements that are converted into output displacements via a minification ratio, allowing closed-loop controlled nanomanipulation. The MEMS-based nano-manipulators are applicable to the characterization/manipulation of nano-materials and construction of nano devices.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".