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Graphene for Nanoelectronic Applications

During the past decade, graphene --- a monolayer of carbon atoms --- has attracted enormous interest for its use in nanoelectronic device applications. The absence of bandgap, however, has stalled its use both in logic (inability to turn off) and radio fre ...

EPFL2015

Electromechanical oscillations in bilayer graphene

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Gabriel Albert Autes, Fernando Gargiulo, Mahmut Tosun, Sajedeh Manzeli, Mohamed Malik Benameur

Nanoelectromechanical systems constitute a class of devices lying at the interface between fundamental research and technological applications. Realizing nanoelectromechanical devices based on novel materials such as graphene allows studying their mechanic ...

2015

Giant spin splitting of the two-dimensional electron gas at the surface of SrTiO3

Jan Hugo Dil

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) forming at the interfaces of transition metal oxides(1-3) exhibit a range of properties, including tunable insulator-superconductor-metal transitions(4-6), large magnetoresistance(7), coexisting ferromagnetism and sup ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Electromagnetic Performance of RF NEMS Graphene Capacitive Switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Pankaj Sharma

The RF performance of a nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) capacitive switch based on graphene is evaluated. Our results show that graphene can be a good candidate for the membrane of RF NEMS switches in applications where low actuation voltage and fast ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

On-chip Mass Sensing at the Physical Limits of Nanoelectromechanical Systems

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre, Christian Kauth

A tunable and self-regulating on-chip carbon nanotube based mass balance is presented for small-size and low-cost environmental and healthcare applications. Tube stretching and a phase-locked loop topology make the system widely universal and invariant to ...

Ieee2013

A versatile scheme for read-out and actuation of nanomechanical motion using silica microspheres

Tobias Kippenberg, Emanuel Gavartin

We employ silica microspheres to detect and actuate nanomechanical motion. With Si3N4-nanostrings, we achieve significant passive cooling by radiation pressure. Feedback-cooling enables stable operation at optical powers beyond the parametric-instability t ...

Ieee2012

Single Active Nanoelectromechanical Tuning Fork Front-End Radio-Frequency Receiver

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Alexandru Rusu, Sebastian Thimotee Bartsch

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) offer the potential to revolutionize fundamental methods employed for signal processing in today's telecommunication systems,1-4 owing to their spectral purity and the prospect of integration with existing technology. I ...

Institute of Physics2012

Investigation of the size of plastic zones in nano indentation and nano scratching

Jean-François Molinari, William Curtin, Till Junge

Friction and the associated wear are important but still poorly understood phenomena with strong impacts on our every day lives. Several mechanisms, such as plasticity, lattice vibration, and third-body interactions contribute to the dissipation of energy ...

2010

Dry etching for the correction of gap-induced blurring and improved pattern resolution in nanostencil lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Marc Antonius Friedrich van den Boogaart

We present nanostencil lithography as a new and parallel nanopatterning technique for batch fabrication of micro/ nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) with high throughput and resolution. We use nanostencil lithography for the purpose of integrating n ...

2007

Massively parallel AFM with digital holographic readout

Laurent Sache

The general idea of Nanotechnology is not new – it has been studied since Nobel laureate Richard Feynman outlined the idea in a speech in 1959 – but it's only recently that the progress carried out in the various fields of material, optic, physic and engin ...

EPFL2006

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