Sensitivity improvement of a microcantilever based mass sensor

M Narducci, E Figueras, MJ Lopez, I Gracia… - Microelectronic …, 2009 - Elsevier
This article describes two approaches for sensitivity improvement of a micromachined silicon
T-shaped cantilever resonator for mass sensing applications. In order to increase sensitivity …

A high sensitivity silicon microcantilever based mass sensor

M Narducci, E Figueras, MJ Lopez, I Gràcia… - SENSORS, 2008 …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A silicon microcantilever based mass sensor with picogram resolution has been fabricated.
In order to improve its sensitivity value, resonator dimensions were reduced. Working in …

CMOS micromachined capacitive cantilevers for mass sensing

YC Li, MH Ho, SJ Hung, MH Chen… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we present the design, fabrication and characterization of the CMOS
micromachined cantilevers for mass sensing in the femtogram range. The cantilevers …

System on chip mass sensor based on polysilicon cantilevers arrays for multiple detection

M Villarroya, J Verd, J Teva, G Abadal, E Forsen… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this work, we present an on chip microelectromechanical system based on an array of
cantilevers for mass detection. The sensor transducer, using polysilicon as structural layer …

Cantilever based MEMS for multiple mass sensing

M Villarroya, J Verd, J Teva, G Abadal… - Research in …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cantilever based micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) for mass detection is
presented. The sensor for multiple detections is composed by several cantilevers in an array …

Microcantilever-based mass sensors: working at higher modes against reducing the dimensions

K Lakshmoji, K Prabakar, A Kumar, J Brijitta… - Micro & Nano Letters, 2012 - IET
Enhanced sensitivity and quality factor of microcantilever (MC)-based mass sensors when
working at higher modes and reducing the dimensions are compared. By analysing the out …

Improving picogram mass sensitivity via frequency doubling in coupled silicon micro-cantilevers

DF Wang, X Du, X Wang, T Ikehara… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Two geometrically different cantilevers, with primary frequencies of 182.506 kHz (u-shaped
cantilever for sensing) and 372.503 kHz (rectangular cantilever for detecting), were coupled …

Evaluation of resonating Si cantilevers sputter-deposited with AlN piezoelectric thin films for mass sensing applications

Ü Sökmen, A Stranz, A Waag, A Ababneh… - Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a micro-machined resonator for mass sensing applications which is based on
a silicon cantilever excited with a sputter-deposited piezoelectric aluminium nitride (AlN) thin …

A novel capacitive mass sensor using an open-loop controlled microcantilever

RK Godara, AK Sharma, N Joshi… - Microsystem Technologies, 2020 - Springer
This article presents a method for quantitative estimation of the mass of an entity attached to
the surface of an electrostatically actuated clamped-free microbeam implemented as a mass …

A new sensitivity improving approach for mass sensors through integrated optimization of both cantilever surface profile and cross-section

J Zhao, Y Zhang, R Gao, S Liu - Sensors and actuators B: chemical, 2015 - Elsevier
Sensitivity is of great importance for piezoelectric resonance mass sensors in the fields of
material and particle analyzing. Different from the custom used methods such as geometric …