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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2015.31.1.art00019_1</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20150101)2015:1L.81;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">s19.phd</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/2015/00002015/00000001/art00019</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Measurement technique for electrostatic charge on single toner particle with MEMS-based actuated tweezers</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Yamaguchi</surname>
            <given-names>Daichi</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Someno</surname>
            <given-names>Shuusuke</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hamaguchi</surname>
            <given-names>Masaya</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2015</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>81</fpage>
      <lpage>84</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>A measurement technique for the charge on a single toner particle using nanotweezers (MEMS-based actuated tweezers) and an AFM cantilever has been developed. This unique system was designed to measure the image force on the cantilever induced by a charged toner particle gripped by nanotweezers.
 A method for calculating the toner charge from the image force has also been established by replacing the non-uniform charge distribution with an imaginary point charge. The proposed technique is validated with consistent results using the blow-off method and is promising for analyzing single
 isolated toner particles, e.g., fogging or transfer dust toner.</p>
      </abstract>
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