The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Nanoelectromechanical systems NEMS are drawing interest from both technical and
scientific communities. These are electromechanical systems, much like …

Metasurfaces, two-dimensional equivalents of metamaterials, are engineered surfaces
consisting of deep subwavelength features that have full control of the electromagnetic …

We provide a review of both new experimental and theoretical developments in the Casimir
effect. The Casimir effect results from the alteration by the boundaries of the zero-point …

An overview of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators for frequency reference
and timing applications is presented. The progress made in the past few decades in design …

Oscillators, which produce continuous periodic signals from direct current power, are central
to modern communications systems, with versatile applications including timing references …

This paper is a review of the remarkable progress that has been made during the past few
decades in design, modeling, and fabrication of micromachined resonators. Although micro …

This paper deals with a relatively new area of radio-frequency (RF) technology based on
microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS). RF MEMS provides a class of new devices and …

As the field of communications networks continues to evolve, the challenging area of
wireless sensor networks is rapidly coming of age. Recent advances have made it possible …

Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks will provide one of the missing connections between the
Internet and the physical world. One of the fundamental problems in sensor networks is the …