Mechanical and electromechanical parametric amplifiers have garnered significant interest, as of late, due to the increased need for low-noise signal amplification in resonant micro/nanosystems. While these devices, which are traditionally designed to operate in a linear range, potentially represent an elegant, on-chip amplification solution, it is not readily apparent that this technical appro...

We show that nanometer-scale dielectric thin films can act as efficient electromechanical transducers to simultaneously drive and sense the vibration of the first flexural mode of micro/nano-cantilevers. Here, 16 μm-long, 5 μm-wide and 350 nm-thick cantilevers are actuated by a 15 nm-thick silicon nitride layer, and electrically detected by charge measurement at megahertz frequencies. The displ...

A new level-line registration technique is proposed for image alignment. This approach is robust towards contrast changes, does not require any estimate of the unknown shift between images and tackles some speci¿c problems due to image acquisition systems: ¿xed artefacts apparition or repetitive patterns that could lead to paring ambiguities. The registration by itself is performed by an ef¿cie...

Energy harvester is a self-generating energy source which is able to run small scale electronic devices. It largely reduces the dependency on external power source. This paper represents the utilization of micro cantilever beam to develop a vibration based electromechanical systems (MEMS) piezoelectric energy harvester system. The proposed micro cantilever part has been developed by finite elem...

The rapid growth in the use of Micro/Nano products in variety of industries such as Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, Biomedical/Bio-MEMS, automotive (motion sensors), telecommunications etc, has demanded new micro manufacturing methods. The challenge with the manufacturing of Microfluidic devices/biochips is that they often make use of broad range of materials within a ...

A large-scale, high speed, high resolution, phase-only microelectromechanical system (MEMS) spatial light modulator (SLM) has been fabricated. Using polysilicon thin film technology, the micro mirror array offers significant improvement in SLM speed in comparison to alternative modulator technologies. Pixel opto-electromechanical characterization has been quantified experimentally on large scal...

Due to its outstanding mechanical characteristics, diamond is an ideal material for use in micro- and nano-electromechanical systems. In this paper, we report on the investigation of vibrational properties singly clamped needlelike microcrystallites with nanoscale tips. The single-crystal needles were produced by selective oxidation polycrystalline films grown using chemical vapor deposition. s...