The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

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

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

Mechanical resonators are widely used as inertial balances to detect small quantities of
adsorbed mass through shifts in oscillation frequency. Advances in lithography and …

We have demonstrated a low-temperature wafer-scale etching and thin film deposition
method for fabricating silicon n− p core− shell nanowire solar cells. Our devices showed …

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 …

Mechanical systems are ideal candidates for studying quantum behavior of macroscopic
objects. To this end, a mechanical resonator has to be cooled to its ground state and its …

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches are similar to conventional semiconductor switches
in that they can be used as relays, transistors, logic devices and sensors. However, the …

The surface effect from surface stress and surface elasticity on the elastic behavior of
nanowires in static bending is incorporated into Euler− Bernoulli beam theory via the …

Recent advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of nano-electro-
mechanical systems (NEMS) such as nanomechanical resonators, which have recently …