Protein adsorption by nanomechanical mass spectrometry: Beyond the real-time molecular weighting

I Stachiv, CY Kuo, W Li - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
During past decades, enormous progress in understanding the mechanisms of the
intermolecular interactions between the protein and surface at the single-molecule level has …

Highly dispersive multiplexed micromechanical device array for spatially resolved sensing and actuation

L Gregorat, M Cautero, L Vicarelli, D Giuressi… - Microsystems & …, 2024 - nature.com
The powerful resource of parallelizing simple devices for realizing and enhancing complex
operations comes with the drawback of multiple connections for addressing and controlling …

Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Elastic Properties and Dissipation at Low Temperatures

HD Boggiano, T Possmayer, L Morguet, L Nan… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We studied the frequency and quality factor of mechanical plasmonic nanoresonators as a
function of temperature, ranging from ambient to 4 K. Our investigation focused on individual …

Effect of intramodal and intermodal nonlinearities on the flexural resonant frequencies of cantilevered beams

JE Sader, S Stassi, C Ricciardi, ML Roukes - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Sensing applications that utilize nanomechanical resonators require careful control of
nonlinear effects in their eigenmodes to ensure robust measurement. While the effect of intra …

Bricks-on-pedestals silicon optomechanical cavity: a mass sensor for nanoparticles detection

A Grau, L Mercadé, R Ortiz, A Martínez - Optics Express, 2025 - opg.optica.org
Optomechanical cavities can be used as highly sensitive mass sensors actuated by an
optical field. In this work, we introduce and numerically demonstrate a new design for an …

[HTML][HTML] FPGA Readout for Frequency-Multiplexed Array of Micromechanical Resonators for Sub-Terahertz Imaging

L Gregorat, M Cautero, A Pitanti, L Vicarelli, M La Mura… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have not only enhanced traditional sensing
methods, such as pixel detection (CCD and CMOS), but also enabled the development of …

Optimizing Optomechanical Resonators for Ultra-High-Frequency Timing Applications

T Furcatte, J Barceló, W Trzpil, M Gely… - 2024 Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optomechanical resonators emerge as a compelling high-performance alternative for GHz
timing references, thanks to the intrinsic assets of this transduction over electrical methods …

Cascaded injection locking of optomechanical crystal oscillators

D Alonso-Tomás, G Arregui, L Mercadé… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optomechanical oscillators stand out as high-performance and versatile candidates for
serving as reference clocks in sequential photonic integrated circuits. Indeed, they have the …

NOEMS Power Multiplied: A Novel Array-Based Multiplexing Scheme

W Trzpil, T Furcatte, M Lefebvre, M Gely… - 2024 IEEE 19th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nano-Opto-Electromechanical Sensors (NOEMS) have recently emerged as a high-
performance alternative to classical MEMS for a variety of sensing applications [1] …

A 20 ppb Resolution Readout Circuit Dedicated to Optomechanical Mass Sensors

HE Dawale, S Regord, T Furcatte, M Sansa… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optomechanical resonators are the new basis for the design of ultra-sensitive mass sensors
[1]. With a mechanical quality factor Q∼ 50 in liquid environment and a sensitivity of 1 …