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Science 23 May 1997:
Vol. 276. no. 5316, p. 1211
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5316.1211
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Perspectives
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Microengineering:
Enhanced: Macro Power from Micro Machinery
A. H. Epstein
S. D. Senturia
Typical turbine engines generate about 100 MW of power. Scaled down to millimeter size, a turbine could generate tens of watts, enough for powering micromachinery. In their Perspective, Epstein and Senturia review past progress and recent developments in micromotor engineering.
A. H. Epstein is in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and S. D. Senturia is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: epstein{at}mit.edu, sds{at}mtl.mit.edu
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