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Displacement Detection using Quantum Mechanical Electron Tunneling in Micro and Nano-electro-mechanical Systems

Taylor D., Ekinci K., Boston University, US

Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and, more recently, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are emerging as candidates for a number of important technological applications — such as ultra-fast actuators, sensors, and high frequency signal processing components. Experimentally, they are [...]

Nano Gripper using Carbon Nanotube

Lee J.S., Kwon S-K, Choi J-S, Kang G-S, Kwak Y-K, Kim S-H, KAIST, KR

In this paper, we proposed a nano gripper that was made from two nano probes. And, those nano probes were made from the tungsten tip and multi-wall carbon nanotube with acrylic adhesive under optical microscope. [...]

Development of the Nano Aligner for CNT-tip fabrication

Kang G-S, Lee J.S., Choi J-S, Kwak Y-K, Kim S-H, KAIST, KR

AFM tip has been used for surface profiling with a fine resolution, but there is a barrier to improve its performance because of the low aspect ratio. Many researchers have solved this problem with attaching [...]

In Situ Transformations of Gold Contacts Studied by Moleculad Dynamics Simulations

Pokropivny A.V., Pokropivny V.V., Lõhmus A., Lõhmus R., Lõhmus A., Lõhmus R., Erts D., Pokropivny A.V., Pokropivny V.V., Olin H., University of Latvia, EE

We apply molecular dynamics methods for simulation of in situ processes in new combined TEM/SPM technique. The atomic structure transformations of a gold nanobridge between two contacts are studied in processes of loading-unloading and friction [...]

On the Design of SET Adders

Sulieman M., Beiu V., Washington State University, US

Single-Electron-Technology (SET) is one of the future technologies distinguished by its small and low power devices. Among others, SET provides simple and elegant solutions for implementing threshold logic gates (TLG).One of the SET-TLG logic circuits [...]

Silicon Nanostructures Patterned on SOI by AFM Lithography

Ionica I., Montès L., Ferraton S., Zimmermann J., Bouchiat V., Saminadayar L., IMEP-INPGrenoble, GF

The actual trends in microelectronics are the reduction of the dimensions and the search of new devices standing upon new phenomena as in the case of a Single Electron Transistor (SET) that is based on [...]

Metal-Insulator-Metal Ensemble (MIME) Chemical Detectors

Smardzewski R.R., Jarvis N.L., Snow A.W., Wohltjen H., Mackay R.A., Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, U.S. Army SBCCOM, US

A new class of nanometer-scale, low power, solid-state devices is being investigated for the detection of hazardous vapors. These chemical vapor sensors are comprised of nanometer-sized gold particles encapsulated by monomolecular layers of alkanethiol surfactant [...]

Month: March 2004