Micromachined resonators: A review

R Abdolvand, B Bahreyni, JEY Lee, F Nabki - Micromachines, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper is a review of the remarkable progress that has been made during the past few
decades in design, modeling, and fabrication of micromachined resonators. Although micro …

Review of electrothermal actuators and applications

A Potekhina, C Wang - Actuators, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of electrothermal micro-actuators and applications.
Electrothermal micro-actuators have been a significant research interest over the last two …

Piezoresistive microcantilevers for humidity sensing

J Xu, M Bertke, HS Wasisto… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Wide-range humidity sensing and monitoring applications including instrumentation,
agriculture, meteorology, biomedicine, and food processing have attracted long-standing …

Tunable micro-and nanomechanical resonators

WM Zhang, KM Hu, ZK Peng, G Meng - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Advances in micro-and nanofabrication technologies have enabled the development of
novel micro-and nanomechanical resonators which have attracted significant attention due …

Integrated resonant micro/nano gravimetric sensors for bio/chemical detection in air and liquid

H Jia, P Xu, X Li - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) with on-chip integrated
excitation and readout components, exhibit exquisite gravimetric sensitivities which have …

Effect of hydrodynamic force on microcantilever vibrations: Applications to liquid-phase chemical sensing

I Dufour, E Lemaire, B Caillard, H Debéda… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2014 - Elsevier
At the microscale, cantilever vibrations depend not only on the microstructure's properties
and geometry but also on the properties of the surrounding medium. In fact, when a …

MEMS thermal-piezoresistive resonators, thermal-piezoresistive oscillators, and sensors

L Wei, Z You, X Kuai, M Zhang, F Yang… - Microsystem Technologies, 2023 - Springer
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) thermal-piezoresistive resonator (TPRs) and
thermal-piezoresistive oscillator (TPO) use thermal actuation and realize feedback through …

Handheld personal airborne nanoparticle detector based on microelectromechanical silicon resonant cantilever

HS Wasisto, S Merzsch, E Uhde, A Waag… - Microelectronic …, 2015 - Elsevier
The development and real-time performance test of a fully integrated low-cost handheld
cantilever-based airborne nanoparticle (NP) detector (CANTOR-2) are described in this …

Reduced order models for resonant viscosity and mass density sensors

M Heinisch, T Voglhuber-Brunnmaier… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2014 - Elsevier
A generalized reduced order model for resonant viscosity and mass density sensors is
presented and experimentally verified. The reduced expressions for the resonance …

Design-dependent performance of self-actuated and self-sensing piezoelectric-AlN cantilevers in liquid media oscillating in the fundamental in-plane bending mode

M Kucera, E Wistrela, G Pfusterschmied… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work the electrical performance of micromachined piezoelectric cantilevers having
different designs is investigated in liquid environment, thus making most beneficially use of …