This paper reports on mass sensing with 33 nm thick single-crystalline cantilevers by a double-beam laser Doppler vibrometer. The resonant frequency of an oscillating thin cantilever beam is very sensitive to a loaded mass. However, the drift of the resonance, due to gas adsorption and mechanical instability, limits the minimum detectable mass in general. Two cantilevers for sensing and its ref...

Sensitive refractive index sensors with small footprints have been studied to allow the integration of a large number of sensors into a tiny chip for bio/chemical applications. In particular, resonant-type index sensors based on various micro/nanocavities, which use a resonant wavelength dependence on the refractive index of the analyte, have been developed. However, the spectral linewidth of t...

Due to advantages such as light weight, flexibility, and low cost, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films have been widely used in engineering applications as sensors for detecting strain, pressure, or micro-force. However, it is known that PVDF strain sensors have strain cross-sensitivity in mutually orthogonal directions. Furthermore, the size of the PVDF film sensor would also affect the dynam...

KEY POINTS Physiological hand tremor has a clear peak between 6 and 12 Hz, which has been attributed to both neural and resonant causes. A reduction in tremor frequency produced by adding an inertial mass to the limb has usually been taken as a method to identify the resonant component. However, adding mass to a limb also inevitably increases the muscular force required to maintain the limb's p...

The fine-structure constant and the electron mass in string theory are determined by the values of scalar fields called moduli. If the dark matter takes on the form of such a light modulus, it oscillates with a frequency equal to its mass and an amplitude determined by the local dark-matter density. This translates into an oscillation of the size of a solid that can be observed by resonant-mass...

What we believe to be a new type of resonant coupling of an incident bulk wave into guided modes of a slab with a thick holographic grating is shown to occur in the presence of strong frequency detunings of the Bragg condition. This happens through the reflection of the strongly noneigen +1 diffracted order with the slab-grating boundaries, the resultant reflected waves forming a guided slab mo...

In this paper, the design of a novel ultrasensitive MEMS resonant force sensor utilizing a mode localization effect is presented. This new type of resonant sensor is constituted of several weakly coupled resonators and by measuring the amplitude ratio of designated resonators, a significant improvement in sensitivity is observed, compared to conventional frequency shift measurements. Furthermor...

We introduce for the first time a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF)-coupled resonant gas sensor whose sensitivity shows an improvement up to 78 times over silicon resonant sensors with identical dimensions while additionally utilizing the inherently selective adsorption properties of ZIFs. In order to achieve high sensitivities, a resonator needs to have a high surface-to-volume ratio. In th...