This paper reports a microfabrication-free approach to make hollow channel mass sensors by pulling a glass capillary and suspending it on top of a machined jig. A part of the pulled section makes simple contact with an actuation node and a quartz tuning fork (QTF) which acts as a sensing node. The two nodes define a pulled micro capillary tube resonator (PμTR) simply supported at two contacts. ...

Resonant converters have been applied in wireless power supplies for implantable sensors due to their inherent advantages of low cost, high frequency and high reliability. However, the operating frequency of the resonant converter varies with the load and circuit parameters changes, which can significantly reduce the maximum power that the system can transfer. As a result the implanted sensors ...

INTRODUCTION For a resonant mass sensor, one definition of sensitivity is the ratio of resonant frequency change to mass change. This is not the complete story, however, as the change in resonant frequency needs to be detectable. Thus, the resonator’s Q factor (which is inversely related to damping ratio) is an important characteristic of the resonator. A low Q factor corresponds to a broad res...

Optically pumped helium magnetometers are important instruments whichhave many applications in military, mass spectroscopy and space applications. In thispaper, the working principles of helium magnetometers have been explained. There isalso an introduction of a new method for finding the resonant frequency, which hasadvantages to the typical method such as more sample r...

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology allows the integration of magnetic field sensors with electronic components, which presents important advantages such as small size, light weight, minimum power consumption, low cost, better sensitivity and high resolution. We present a discussion and review of resonant magnetic field sensors based on MEMS technology. In practice, these sensors e...

In micro-resonant gas sensors, the capacitive detection is widely used because of its simple structure. However, its shortcoming is a weak signal output caused by a small capacitance change. Here, we reduced the initial clearance between the pole plates to the nanometer level, and increased the capacitance between the pole plates and its change during resonator vibration. We propose a fabricati...

Metamaterials are artificial multifunctional materials that acquire their material properties from their structure, rather than inheriting them directly from the materials they are composed of, and they may provide novel tools to significantly enhance the sensitivity and resolution of sensors. In this paper, we derive the dispersion relation of a cylindrical dielectric waveguide loaded on a neg...

This research systematically investigates the fluid damping for micromachined beam-type resonators with high resonant frequencies. The work s aimed to find a general fluid damping law which can quantitatively be used as a design tool for the resonance-based micro sensors by accurately redicting the quality factor for resonators operated in air or liquid. Micro-cantilevers with different dimensi...