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In preliminary tests, sealed reservoirs of benzyl alcohol for dielectrophoretic
manipulation remained stable, in the sense that nanowires remained suspended
and there was no visible leakage of solvent, for more than a week under
refrigeration.
5.5. CONCLUSIONS
We have reviewed recent progress toward the development of dielectrophoretic
architectures for integrated nanoelectronic computation. Focusing on the demon-
stration of reconfigurable nanowire interconnects, we also derived general
strategies for scaling, integrating, and packaging such dielectrophoretic systems.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author is especially grateful to C. M. Lieber for his generous guidance
and support, and for use of his laboratory, and to F. Patolsky for very help-
ful discussions. The author also thanks the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
for doctoral funding, and T. M. Sullivan for his editing. This work made use of
Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems and NSF/NNIN facilities. This mate-
rial was supported in part by the United States Air Force and DARPA under
Contract No. FA8750-05-C-0011. Any opinions expressed are those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Air Force
or DARPA.
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