Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Over the last two decades, piezoelectric resonant sensors based on micro-
electromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies have been extensively studied as such …

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 …

Nanoscale modal confinement is known to radically enhance the effect of intrinsic Kerr and
Raman nonlinearities within nanophotonic silicon waveguides. By contrast, stimulated …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is traditionally viewed as a process whose strength is
dictated by intrinsic material nonlinearities with little dependence on waveguide geometry …

Mode properties and thermoelastic damping (TED) are crucial for the disk resonator
gyroscope (DRG). Most of the DRG structure designs do not involve the mode order …

Predicting thermoelastic damping (TED) is crucial in the design of high Q micro-electro-
mechanical systems (MEMS) resonators. In the past, some analytical models have been …

In this paper, an analytical model for thermoelastic damping in an anisotropic piezoelectric
microbeam is investigated based on the thermal energy approach. The charge in the …

Thermally excited and piezoresistively detected bulk-micromachined cantilevers vibrating in
their in-plane flexural resonance mode are presented. By shearing the surrounding fluid …

In this paper, we review the current understanding of energy loss mechanisms in
micromachined (MEMS and NEMS) devices. We describe the importance of high quality …