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Nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators for ultrasensitive inertial detection

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OSTI ID:1093227
A system for ultrasensitive mass and/or force detection of this invention includes a mechanical oscillator driven to oscillate in a nonlinear regime. The mechanical oscillator includes a piezoelectric base with at least one cantilever resonator etched into the piezoelectric base. The cantilever resonator is preferably a nonlinear resonator which is driven to oscillate with a frequency and an amplitude. The system of this invention detects an amplitude collapse of the cantilever resonator at a bifurcation frequency as the cantilever resonator stimulated over a frequency range. As mass and/or force is introduced to the cantilever resonator, the bifurcation frequency shifts along a frequency axis in proportion to the added mass.
Research Organization:
ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States))
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
Patent Number(s):
8,505,382
Application Number:
13/024,797
OSTI ID:
1093227
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Dynamic pull-in phenomenon in MEMS resonators journal September 2006
Linear and Nonlinear Tuning of Parametrically Excited MEMS Oscillators journal April 2007
Mass Sensing Based on Deterministic and Stochastic Responses of Elastically Coupled Nanocantilevers journal September 2009

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