Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates

  • Yuanping Song,
  • Robert M. Panas,
  • Samira Chizari,
  • Lucas A. Shaw,
  • Julie A. Jackson,
  • Jonathan B. Hopkins,
  • Andrew J. Pascall

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08678-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Mechanical computing based on the logic devices that utilize mechanical energy can be an alternative to conventional electronic computing. Here, Song et al. show a micromechanical logic gate, fabricated using multi-stable buckling flexures, which is capable of realizing all digital logic operations.