[KNJIGA][B] Piezoresistor design and applications

JC Doll, BL Pruitt - 2013 - Springer
Piezoresistive sensors are among the oldest and most widely used silicon microsystems. Yet
a book dedicated to their design is strangely lacking and most introductory MEMS textbooks …

MEMS accelerometers: testing and practical approach for smart sensing and machinery diagnostics

A Albarbar, SH Teay - Advanced mechatronics and MEMS devices II, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)-based sensing elements are gaining
wider acceptance and adoption for static and dynamic (mobile) applications. Recent …

Faster than the speed of hearing: nanomechanical force probes enable the electromechanical observation of cochlear hair cells

JC Doll, AW Peng, AJ Ricci, BL Pruitt - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for our sense of hearing requires new tools for
unprecedented stimulation and monitoring of sensory cell mechanotransduction at …

High-bandwidth piezoresistive force probes with integrated thermal actuation

JC Doll, BL Pruitt - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present high-speed force probes with on-chip actuation and sensing for the
measurement of pN-scale forces at the microsecond timescale. We achieve a high resonant …

[HTML][HTML] In silico modeling and investigation of self-heating effects in composite nano cantilever biosensors with integrated piezoresistors

R Mathew, A Ravi Sankar - AIP Advances, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Over the years, piezoresistive nano cantilever sensors have been extensively investigated
for various biological sensing applications. Piezoresistive cantilever sensor is a composite …

Optimization of a nano-cantilever biosensor for reduced self-heating effects and improved performance metrics

R Mathew, AR Sankar - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade, surface stress-based piezoresistive cantilever biosensors have been
extensively explored as a potential alternative for conventional clinical diagnostic …

Thermal characterization of microscale heat convection in rare-gas environment by a steady-state “hot wire” method

J Gao, D **e, Y **ong, Y Yue - Applied physics express, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, a steady-state" hot wire" method is developed to study thermal transport around
a microwire in a rare-gas environment. The convection heat transfer coefficient (h) around a …

[HTML][HTML] Study on temperature and synthetic compensation of piezo-resistive differential pressure sensors by coupled simulated annealing and simplex optimized …

J Li, G Hu, Y Zhou, C Zou, W Peng, J Alam SM - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
As a high performance-cost ratio solution for differential pressure measurement, piezo-
resistive differential pressure sensors are widely used in engineering processes. However …

Improvement of frequency responses of an in-plane electro-thermal cantilever sensor for real-time measurement

A Setiono, WO Nyang'au, M Fahrbach… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Resonance-based sensors ordinarily show a symmetrical amplitude shape, which is
accompanied by a monotonic transition as its phase response. At its resonance state, there …

MEMS piezoresistive accelerometers

TK Bhattacharyya, AL Roy - Micro and smart devices and systems, 2014 - Springer
MEMS piezoresistive accelerometers are inertial sensors which measure acceleration of the
reference frame to which they are attached. These devices provide extremely localized …