Back in December 1959, future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gave a visionary and now
oft-quoted talk entitled “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” The occasion was an …

Micromechanical oscillator sustains oscillation through a velocity-proportional feedback
force. Stabilization of the oscillation frequency is typically achieved by increasing the …

Nanomechanical resonators can serve as high-performance detectors and have the
potential to be widely used in industry for a variety of applications. Most nanomechanical …

High quality factor (Q) nanomechanical resonators have received a lot of attention for sensor
applications with unprecedented sensitivity. Despite the large interest, few investigations …

Silicon nitride (Si N) drumhead resonators offer a promising platform for thermal sensing
owing to their high mechanical quality factor and the high temperature sensitivity of their …

MEMS/NEMS resonant sensors hold promise for minute mass and force sensing. However,
one major challenge is that conventional externally driven sensors inevitably encounter …

Resonant sensors hold great promise in measuring small masses, to enable future mass
spectrometers, and small forces in applications like atomic and magnetic force microscopy …

Real-time and accurate flue gas temperature and velocity measurement is crucial for the
safety, efficiency, and low emission of a power plant operation. This article describes a new …

Nanomechanical resonators are used as high performance detectors in a variety of
applications such as mass spectrometry and atomic force microscopy. Initial emphasis in …

The detection of multiple particles has been mainly studied by examining the flexural
vibration properties of a one-dimensional Euler-Bernoulli beam under the assumption that …