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Piezoelectric Nano-Balance for RNA Detection

Vesna Bacheva

Mass sensors, such as contour mode resonators are promising approach for biosensing in liquid environment. Their miniaturization offers many advantages, including small sample volume, rapid analysis, low power consumption, and integration of multiple devic ...

2017

Synchronization of nanomechanical oscillators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

Synchronization of oscillators based on anharmonic nanoelectromechanical resonators. Experimental implimentation allows for unprecedented observation and control of parameters governing the dynamics of synchronization. Close quantitative agreement is found ...

2014

Encapsulated Low Frequency Vibrating Body Field Effect Resonator

Marion Hermersdorf

Resonators for time and frequency reference applications are essential elements found in most electronic devices surrounding us. The continuous minimization and ubiquitous distribution of such electronic devices and circuits demands for resonators of small ...

EPFL2013

Surpassing Fundamental Limits of Oscillators Using Nonlinear Resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

In its most basic form an oscillator consists of a resonator driven on resonance, through feedback, to create a periodic signal sustained by a static energy source. The generation of a stable frequency, the basic function of oscillators, is typically achie ...

American Physical Society2013

An Artificial Muscle Ring Oscillator

Dielectric elastomer artificialmuscles have great potential for the creation of novel pumps, motors, and circuitry. Control of these devices requires an oscillator, either as a driver or clock circuit, which is typically provided as part of bulky, rigid, a ...

2012

The Vibrating Body Transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Daniel Grogg

This paper presents a hybrid resonator architecture called the vibrating body field-effect transistor (VB-FET), which combines a silicon microelectromechanical (MEM) resonator and a FET in a single device. The active device provides improved motion sensing ...

2011

Active Microelectromechanical Resonator

Daniel Grogg

The progress in the technology of microelectronic devices has led to a strong miniaturization and high performance for circuits and systems, enabling modern applications such as mobile computing and communications. Today, remaining "off-chip" components th ...

EPFL2010

AIN Thin Film Structures for High-Q Resonators

Alvaro Artieda

The development of wireless and mobile communication in the last decade led to the elaboration of new components based on thin films with continually increasing performance and reduced fabrication cost. A fundamental element for mobile communication is the ...

EPFL2010

Resonant-Body Fin-FETs with sub-nW power consumption

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andrea Lovera, Dimitrios Tsamados, Daniel Grogg, Sebastian Thimotee Bartsch

This paper presents, for the first time, experimental evidence on resonant-body Fin-FETs (RB-FinFET) with two independent lateral gates, operated from weak to strong inversion, which enables unique trade-off between power consumption and gain. Resonance fr ...

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Finite element analysis and experiments on a silicon membrane actuated by an epitaxial PZT thin film for localized-mass sensing applications

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Don Isarakorn

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a piezoelectric membrane actuated by an epitaxial piezoelectric Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O-3 (PZT) thin film for localized-mass sensing applications. The fabrication and characterization of piezoelectric circular membr ...

Elsevier2010