Nanoelectromechanical systems

KL Ekinci, ML Roukes - Review of scientific instruments, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Nanoelectromechanical systems NEMS are drawing interest from both technical and
scientific communities. These are electromechanical systems, much like …

Micromachined resonators: A review

R Abdolvand, B Bahreyni, JEY Lee, F Nabki - Micromachines, 2016 - mdpi.com
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 …

A review of MEMS oscillators for frequency reference and timing applications

JTM Van Beek, R Puers - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
MEMS-based oscillators are an emerging class of highly miniaturized, batch manufacturable
timing devices that can rival the electrical performance of well-established quartz-based …

Review of ultrasonic ranging methods and their current challenges

Z Qiu, Y Lu, Z Qiu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ultrasonic ranging has been widely used in automobiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
robots and other fields. With the appearance of micromachined ultrasonic transducers …

Nonlinear dynamics and its applications in micro-and nanoresonators

JF Rhoads, SW Shaw, KL Turner - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This review provides a summary of work on the resonant nonlinear dynamics of micro-and
nanoelectromechanical systems. This research area, which has been active for …

Temperature dependence of quality factor in MEMS resonators

B Kim, MA Hopcroft, RN Candler… - Journal of …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The temperature dependence of the quality factor of microelectromechanical system
(MEMS) resonators is analyzed and measured. For silicon MEMS resonators, there are …

In-air rangefinding with an AlN piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer

RJ Przybyla, SE Shelton, A Guedes… - IEEE Sensors …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultrasonic rangefinder has a working range of 30 to 450 mm and operates at a 375-Hz
maximum sampling rate. The random noise increases with distance and equals 1.3 mm at …

Thin-film piezoelectric-on-silicon resonators for high-frequency reference oscillator applications

R Abdolvand, HM Lavasani, GK Ho… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the application of lateral bulk acoustic thin-film piezoelectric-on-substrate
(TPoS) resonators in high-frequency reference oscillators. Low-motional impedance TPoS …

Surpassing fundamental limits of oscillators using nonlinear resonators

LG Villanueva, E Kenig, RB Karabalin, MH Matheny… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
In its most basic form an oscillator consists of a resonator driven on resonance, through
feedback, to create a periodic signal sustained by a static energy source. The generation of …

A review on coupled bulk acoustic wave MEMS resonators

L Wang, C Wang, Y Wang, A Quan, M Keshavarz… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the introduction of the working principle of coupled resonators, the coupled bulk
acoustic wave (BAW) Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) resonators have been …