among the intermolecular interactions, the casimir and van der waals forces are the most important forces that highly affect the behavior of nanostructures. this paper studies the effect of such forces on the adhesion of cantilever freestanding nanostructures. the nanostructures are made of a freestanding nano-beam which is suspended between two upper and lower conductive surfaces. the linear s...

Avoiding collision of nano-particles during manipulation operations and selecting the best route and lowest Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) movement are major concerns in the area of nano-space. To apply the lowest force on the cantilever from fluid environment forces, we try to minimize AFM movements. Our proposed method calculates the optimum routing for AFM probe movement for nano-particles tr...

Parallel frequency readout of an array of cantilevers is demonstrated using optical beam deflection with a single laser-diode pair. Multi-frequency addressing makes the individual nanomechanical response of each cantilever distinguishable within the received signal. Addressing is accomplished by exciting the array with the sum of all cantilever resonant frequencies. This technique requires cons...

TEM Cantilever Chips In article number 2301439, Chaojian Hou, Jing Zhao, Lixin Dong, and co-workers report a cantilever chip for in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The consists of MoS2 opto-electromechanical sensor plasmonic antenna array built on the top Si3N4 cantilever, forming an electron-beam-transparent (thickness ≈100 nm) nano-opto-electromechanical system (NOEMS), enabling ...

To manipulate liquid matter at the nanometer scale, we have developed a robotic assembly equipped with a hollow atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever that can handle femtolitre volumes of liquid. The assembly consists of four independent robots, each sugar cube sized with four degrees of freedom. All robots are placed on a single platform around the sample forming a nano-workbench (NWB). Eac...

A technique developed for studying the mechanical behavior of nano-scale thin metal films on substrate is presented. The test structure was designed on a novel “paddle” cantilever beam specimens with dimensions as few hundred nanometers to less than 10 nanometers. This beam is in triangle shape in order to provide uniform plane strain distribution. Standard clean room processing was used to pre...

Micro/nanocantilevers have been employed as sensors in many applications including chemical and biosensing. Due to their high sensitivity and potential for scalability, miniature sensing systems are in wide use and will likely become more prevalent in micro/nano-electromechanical systems (M-NEMSs). This paper is mainly focused on the use of sensing systems that employ micro/nano-size cantilever...

The graphene nano-electro-mechanical switches are promising components due to their outstanding switching performance. However, most of the reported devices suffered from a large actuation voltages, hindering them from the integration in the conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuit. In this work, we demonstrated the graphene nano-electro-mechanical switches with the l...

Nanotechnology involves the ability to see and control individual atoms and molecules which are about 100 nanometer or smaller. One of the major tools used in this field is atomic force microscopy which uses a wealth of techniques to measure the topography and investigates the surface forces in nanoscale. Friction force is the representation of the surface interaction between two surfaces an...

Measurement of force on a micro- or nano-Newton scale is important when exploring the mechanical properties of materials in the biophysics and nanomechanical fields. The atomic force microscope (AFM) is widely used in microforce measurement. The cantilever probe works as an AFM force sensor, and the spring constant of the cantilever is of great significance to the accuracy of the measurement re...