Mechanical properties of single cells: Measurement methods and applications

Y Hao, S Cheng, Y Tanaka, Y Hosokawa… - Biotechnology …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Cell mechanical properties, eg elastic and shear modulus, play vital roles in cell activities
and functions, such as cell growth, cell division, cell motion, and cell adhesion …

Microcantilever biosensors

KM Hansen, T Thundat - Methods, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Biosensors are sensors in which biomolecular interactions are used as sensing reactions.
Biomolecular interactions, when combined with a microcantilever platform, can produce an …

Recent developments in dimensional nanometrology using AFMs

A Yacoot, L Koenders - Measurement Science and Technology, 2011‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Scanning probe microscopes, in particular the atomic force microscope (AFM), have
developed into sophisticated instruments that, throughout the world, are no longer used just …

Review of scanning probe micromachining and its applications within nanoscience

T Michels, IW Rangelow - Microelectronic Engineering, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Current progress on micro/nanofabrication of dynamic mode cantilever sensors utilized as
scanning probes, and their diverse sensing applications within physics, chemistry, and …

Piezoresistive cantilevers for nanomechanical sensing

J Bausells - Microelectronic Engineering, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Microfabricated cantilevers have enabled a wide range of applications in scanning probe
microscopies (SPM) and in high-sensitivity nanomechanical sensors. The use of …

Parallel AFM imaging and force spectroscopy using two‐dimensional probe arrays for applications in cell biology

M Favre, J Polesel‐Maris, T Overstolz… - Journal of Molecular …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) investigations of living cells provide new information in both
biology and medicine. However, slow cell dynamics and the need for statistically significant …

Intelligent sampling for the measurement of structured surfaces

J Wang, X Jiang, LA Blunt, RK Leach… - Measurement Science …, 2012‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Uniform sampling in metrology has known drawbacks such as coherent spectral aliasing
and a lack of efficiency in terms of measuring time and data storage. The requirement for …

Scanning proximal probes for parallel imaging and lithography

K Ivanova, Y Sarov, T Ivanov, A Frank… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2008‏ - pubs.aip.org
Scanning proximity probes are uniquely powerful tools for analysis, manipulation, and
bottom-up synthesis. A massively parallel cantilever-probe platform is demonstrated. 128 …

Thermo-mechanical transduction suitable for high-speed scanning probe imaging and lithography

T Angelov, D Roeser, T Ivanov, S Gutschmidt… - Microelectronic …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) with integrated read-out and actuation are very
useful tools for a wide variation of applications, especially in scanning probe microscopy …

Scanning probe microscopy based on magnetoresistive sensing

DR Sahoo, A Sebastian, W Häberle, H Pozidis… - …, 2011‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated sensors are essential for scanning probe microscopy (SPM) based systems that
employ arrays of microcantilevers for high throughput. Common integrated sensors, such as …