Bifurcation-based mass sensing using piezoelectrically-actuated microcantilevers
Date of this Version
4-11-2011Citation
Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 153510 (2011)
Abstract
In conventional implementations, resonant chemical and biological sensors exploit chemomechanically-induced frequency shifts, which occur in linear systems, for analyte detection. In this letter, an alternative sensing approach, based upon dynamic transitions across saddle-node bifurcations is investigated. This technique not only has the potential to render improved sensor metrics but also to eliminate frequency tracking components from final device implementations. The present work details proof-of-concept experiments on bifurcation-based sensing, which were conducted using selectively functionalized, piezoelectrically-actuated microcantilevers. Preliminary results reveal the proposed sensing technique to be a viable alternative to existing resonant sensing methods. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3574920]
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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Copyright (2011) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 153510 (2011) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3574920. The following article has been submitted to/accepted by Applied Physics Letters. Copyright (2011) Vijay Kumar, J. William Boley, Yushi Yang, Hendrik Ekowaluyo, Jacob K. Miller, George T.-C. Chiu, and Jeffrey F. Rhoads. This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.