CMOS-integrated aluminum nitride MEMS: A review

RMR Pinto, V Gund, RA Dias… - Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

[HTML][HTML] Effective quality factor tuning mechanisms in micromechanical resonators

JML Miller, A Ansari, DB Heinz, Y Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …

MEMS resonators for frequency reference and timing applications

G Wu, J Xu, EJ Ng, W Chen - Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Understanding spontaneous orientation polarization of amorphous organic semiconducting films and its application to devices

Y Noguchi, Y Tanaka, H Ishii, W Brütting - Synthetic Metals, 2022 - Elsevier
Spontaneous orientation polarization (SOP) of amorphous organic semiconducting films has
attracted much attention because of its frequent observation in common organic light …

MEMS post-processed self-assembled electret for vibratory energy harvesters

D Yamane, H Kayaguchi, K Kawashima, H Ishii… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electret-based microelectromechanical system (MEMS) vibratory energy harvesting is a key
technology for converting the mechanical energy of environmental vibrations into electricity …

Thermomechanical-noise-limited capacitive transduction of encapsulated MEM resonators

JML Miller, NE Bousse, DB Heinz… - Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The thermomechanical motion imposes the fundamental noise limit in room-temperature
resonant sensors and oscillators. Due to the inherently low sensitivity of capacitive …

Load-induced dynamical transitions at graphene interfaces

D Peng, Z Wu, D Shi, C Qu, H Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The structural superlubricity (SSL), a state of near-zero friction between two contacted solid
surfaces, has been attracting rapidly increasing research interest since it was realized in …

A CMOS-integrated MEMS platform for frequency stable resonators-Part I: Fabrication, implementation, and characterization

CY Chen, MH Li, AA Zope, SS Li - Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces the comprehensive design concepts, procedure, and post-process
flow of a robust manufacturing platform for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor …

A low impedance CMOS-MEMS capacitive resonator based on metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure

HY Chen, SS Li, MH Li - IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the first nano-gap microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonator
based on a Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor structure in standard CMOS. We develop …

Resonant Inertial Mass Sensing for VOCs—CMOS-Compatible SoC Integration Advantages and Challenges: A Review

R Perelló-Roig, J Verd, S Bota… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have gained the biomedical community's attention
given their relevance in exhaled human breath analysis for noninvasive disease diagnosis …