Cantilever-like micromechanical sensors

A Boisen, S Dohn, SS Keller, S Schmid… - Reports on Progress in …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of cantilever-based sensing emerged in the mid-1990s and is today a well-known
technology for label-free sensing which holds promise as a technique for cheap, portable …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Frequency fluctuations in silicon nanoresonators

M Sansa, E Sage, EC Bullard, M Gély, T Alava… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Frequency stability is key to the performance of nanoresonators. This stability is thought to
reach a limit with the resonator's ability to resolve thermally induced vibrations. Although …

Microcantilevers: sensing chemical interactions via mechanical motion

KM Goeders, JS Colton, LA Bottomley - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
Micromechanical devices comprise emerging sensor platforms with straightforward sensing
mechanisms. Molecular adsorption onto the sensing element, typically a cantilever, shifts its …

Monolayer MXene Nanoelectromechanical Piezo‐Resonators with 0.2 Zeptogram Mass Resolution

D Tan, X Cao, J Huang, Y Peng, L Zeng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D materials‐based nanoelectromechanical resonant systems with high sensitivity
can precisely trace quantities of ultra‐small mass molecules and therefore are broadly …

Enhanced phonon blockade in a weakly coupled hybrid system via mechanical parametric amplification

Y Wang, JL Wu, JX Han, Y Xia, YY Jiang, J Song - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
We propose how to achieve strong phonon blockade (PB) in a hybrid spin-mechanical
system in the weak-coupling regime. We demonstrate the implementation of magnetically …

Monolithic CMOS MEMS oscillator circuit for sensing in the attogram range

J Verd, A Uranga, G Abadal, JL Teva… - IEEE electron device …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the design, fabrication, and demonstration of a CMOS/
microelectromechanical system (MEMS) electrostatically self-excited resonator based on a …

Chemical sensors with integrated electronics

S Joo, RB Brown - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
Building on the invention of the transistor by Brattain and Bardeen, 1 an enormous amount
of research in semiconductors and integrated circuits (ICs) has established the modern …

Ultrasensitive mass sensor fully integrated with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor circuitry

E Forsen, G Abadal, S Ghatnekar-Nilsson… - Applied Physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Nanomechanical resonators have been monolithically integrated on preprocessed
complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chips. Fabricated resonator systems …

Integration of RF-MEMS resonators on submicrometric commercial CMOS technologies

JL Lopez, J Verd, J Teva, G Murillo… - Journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Integration of electrostatically driven and capacitively transduced MEMS resonators in
commercial CMOS technologies is discussed. A figure of merit to study the performance of …