Infrared spectroscopic imaging: the next generation

R Bhargava - Applied spectroscopy, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Infrared (IR) spectroscopic imaging seemingly matured as a technology in the mid-2000s,
with commercially successful instrumentation and reports in numerous applications. Recent …

Heated atomic force microscope cantilevers and their applications

WP King, B Bhatia, JR Felts, HJ Kim… - Annual Review of …, 2013‏ - dl.begellhouse.com
Atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers with integrated heaters enable nanometer-scale
heat flow measurements, materials characterization, nanomanufacturing, and many other …

Molecular recognition using receptor-free nanomechanical infrared spectroscopy based on a quantum cascade laser

S Kim, D Lee, X Liu, C Van Neste, S Jeon, T Thundat - Scientific reports, 2013‏ - nature.com
Speciation of complex mixtures of trace explosives presents a formidable challenge for
sensors that rely on chemoselective interfaces due to the unspecific nature of weak …

Polymer-coated quartz tuning fork for enhancing the sensitivity of laser-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy

C Lou, X Li, H Chen, X Yang, Y Zhang, J Yao, X Liu - Optics Express, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
A novel laser-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy (LITES) sensor based on a polymer-
coated quartz tuning fork (QTF) is reported. Two types of polymer films with different …

Photomechanical meta-molecule array for real-time terahertz imaging

Y Wen, D Jia, W Ma, Y Feng, M Liu, L Dong… - Microsystems & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Real-time terahertz (THz) imaging offers remarkable application possibilities, especially in
the security and medical fields. However, most THz detectors work with scanners, and a long …

Sub-picowatt resolution calorimetry with a bi-material microcantilever sensor

C Canetta, A Narayanaswamy - Applied Physics Letters, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
We have designed and fabricated bi-material microcantilevers with low conductance by
minimizing the width and thickness of the cantilevers while kee** them suitable for …

Heat capacity measurements of sub-nanoliter volumes of liquids using bimaterial microchannel cantilevers

MF Khan, N Miriyala, J Lee, M Hassanpourfard… - Applied Physics …, 2016‏ - pubs.aip.org
Lab-on-a-Chip compatible techniques for thermal characterization of miniaturized volumes
of liquid analytes are necessary in applications such as protein blotting, DNA melting, and …

Micromechanical devices with controllable stiffness fabricated from regular 3D porous materials

JH Pikul, Z Dai, X Yu, H Zhang, T Kim… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Hierarchical pore structures can dramatically change the mechanical properties of materials,
but current methods for creating porous materials make the mechanical properties difficult to …

Thermomechanical behavior of a bimaterial microchannel cantilever subjected to periodic IR radiation

N Miriyala, MF Khan, T Thundat - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Here we report the thermomechanical response of a bimaterial microchannel cantilever
(BMC) subjected to periodic heating by IR radiation. A detailed theoretical and experimental …

In-plane thermal conductivity measurements of Si μ-cantilevers using the suspended thermo-reflectance (STR) technique

D Sarkar, G Singh, BS Yilbas, SB Mansoor… - Review of Scientific …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
The Suspended Thermoreflectance (STR) technique is described in this paper. This
optoelectronic measurement tool performs thermal characterization of freestanding micro …