TY - GEN
T1 - Forces in Liquid Metal Contacts
AU - Duggen, Lars
AU - Mátéfi-Tempfli, Stefan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Using rather well known theory about capillary bridges between two electrodes we calculate the tensile force that can be applied to liquid metal contacts in the micrometer regime. Assuming circular symmetry, full wetting of the electrodes, and neglecting gravity, we present a brief review of the necessary theory and find numerically the forces to be in the 100μN range for liquid metals as mercury and liquid Gallium suspended between electrodes of 20μm radius.
AB - Using rather well known theory about capillary bridges between two electrodes we calculate the tensile force that can be applied to liquid metal contacts in the micrometer regime. Assuming circular symmetry, full wetting of the electrodes, and neglecting gravity, we present a brief review of the necessary theory and find numerically the forces to be in the 100μN range for liquid metals as mercury and liquid Gallium suspended between electrodes of 20μm radius.
U2 - 10.1115/ESDA2014-20114
DO - 10.1115/ESDA2014-20114
M3 - Article in proceedings
VL - 3
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME 2014 12th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis ESDA 2014
BT - ASME 2014: 12th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis
Y2 - 25 June 2014 through 27 December 2014
ER -