A comprehensive review is presented on the advances achieved in past years on
fundamental and applied materials science of diamond films and engineering to integrate …

The present review introduces a class of ceramic nanocomposites that contain carbon as
disperse phases and exhibit piezoresistive behavior. After a brief introduction in which the …

Electronic readout of the motions of genuinely nanoscale mechanical devices at room
temperature imposes an important challenge for the integration and application of …

The piezoresistive behavior of a silicon carbonitride ceramic derived from a polymer
precursor is investigated under a uniaxial compressive loading condition. The electric …

The wide bandgap semiconductors silicon carbide and diamond and the material system
Silicon On Insulator (SOI) are compared regarding their suitability as silicon compatible …

Micro-or nanoelectromechanical system (MEMS/NEMS) is a multidisciplinary field, which
has witnessed explosive growth during the past decades. The current materials for MEMS …

A Critical Review of Chemical Vapor-Deposited (CVD) Diamond for Electronic Applications
Page 1 Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, 25(3):163-277 (2000) A Critical …

The piezoresistive behavior of polymer-derived amorphous SiAlCO ceramic is studied in a
temperature range of 25–300° C. It is shown that the material exhibits a giant gage factor of …

The use of thin films as sensing elements for microsensor applications has been shown very
attractive due to their low-cost fabrication, potential for integration with standard CMOS …

Chemical vapor deposited (CVD) polycrystalline diamond is inexpensive and can become a
commercially viable piezoresistive sensor material if its typical gauge factor (GF) exceeds …