The advances in micro-and nanofabrication technologies enable the preparation of
increasingly smaller mechanical transducers capable of detecting the forces, motion …

Advances in micro-and nanofabrication technologies have enabled the development of
novel micro-and nanomechanical resonators which have attracted significant attention due …

Back in December 1959, future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gave a visionary and now
oft-quoted talk entitled “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” The occasion was an …

Experiments on micro-and nano-mechanical systems (M/NEMS) have shown that their
behavior under bending loads departs in many cases from the classical predictions using …

The effect of surface stress on the stiffness of cantilever beams remains an outstanding
problem in the physical sciences. While numerous experimental studies report significant …

Curved thin sheets are ubiquitously found in nature and manmade structures from macro-to
nanoscale. Within the framework of classical thin plate theory, the stiffness of thin sheets is …

The ability to detect and analyze single sample entities such as single nanoparticles,
viruses, spores, or molecules is of fundamental interest. This can provide insight into the …

Over the last decades, nanomechanical sensors have received significant attention from the
scientific community, as they find plenty of applications in many different research fields …

Photothermal heating represents a major constraint that limits the performance of many
nanoscale optoelectronic and optomechanical devices including nanolasers, quantum …

The optomechanical coupling that emerges in an optical cavity in which one of the mirrors is
a mechanical resonator has allowed sub-Kelvin cooling with the prospect of observing …