The advances in micro-and nanofabrication technologies enable the preparation of
increasingly smaller mechanical transducers capable of detecting the forces, motion …

Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems, including cantilevers and other small scale
structures, have been studied for sensor applications. Accurate sensing of gaseous or …

SU-8 is an epoxy-based, negative-tone photoresist that has been extensively utilized to
fabricate myriads of devices including biomedical devices in the recent years. This paper …

Micromechanical devices comprise emerging sensor platforms with straightforward sensing
mechanisms. Molecular adsorption onto the sensing element, typically a cantilever, shifts its …

Biosensors are sensors in which biomolecular interactions are used as sensing reactions.
Biomolecular interactions, when combined with a microcantilever platform, can produce an …

The development of tools and processes used to fabricate, measure, and image nanoscale
objects has lead to a wide range of work devoted to producing sensors that interact with …

In the last decade, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) SU-8 polymeric cantilevers with
piezoresistive readout combined with the advances in molecular recognition techniques …

The effect of O 2 plasma treatment on surface energy, topography and surface chemistry of
the negative photoresist epoxy novolak SU-8 was investigated by contact angle goniometry …

The properties of water at the nanoscale are crucial in many areas of biology, but the
confinement of water molecules in sub-nanometre channels in biological systems has …

The authors present a theoretical model to predict the resonance frequency shift due to
molecule adsorption on micro-and nanocantilevers. They calculate the frequency shift …