...Front Matter MEMS Applications in Electronics and Engineering is a state-of-the-art resource for scientists and students in sensor/device research. It provides a thorough overview of the latest applications and devices in nano-scale sensors and their role in diagnostics, consumer...

...MEMS Applications in Electronics and Engineering is a state-of-the-art resource for scientists and students in sensor/device research. It provides a thorough overview of the latest applications and devices in nano-scale sensors and their role in diagnostics, consumer electronics...

.... , “ Depolarization in modeling nano-scale ferroelectrics using the landau free energy functional ,” Appl. Phys. A   91 ( 1 ), 59 – 63 ( 2008 ). 10.1007/s00339-007-4355-4 Zhang , W. and Bhattacharya , K. , “ A computational model of ferroelectric domains. part ii: Grain boundaries and defect...

... in designing MEMS/NEMS (Micro/Nano electrical mechanical systems) devices. Scaling laws are particularly useful in studying how different properties of a system change as its characteristic length is varied. For example, for an object of length l, its area scales as l², and its...

... ,” Nano Lett.   19 , 6751 – 6755 ( 2019 ). 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01554 Brown , B. L. , Lee , M. , Clem , P. G.   et al. , “ Electrical and optical characterization of the metal-insulator transition temperature in Cr-doped VO₂ thin films ,” J. Appl. Phys.   113 , 173704...

... with small form factor ( Basu et al., 2019f , 2019g ). A way to scale down MEMS devices toward a reduced form factor with better packing density of devices has also been sought through the implementation of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices ( Basu et al., 2021b...

...-cantilevers ,” J. Micromanuf.   3 ( 2 ), 113 – 120 ( 2020a ). 10.1177/2516598420930988 Basu , A. , Basu , A. , and Bhattacharya , S. , “ Study of pH induced conformational change of papain using polymeric nano-cantilever ,” AIP Conf. Proc.   2083 , 03001 ( 2019a ). 10.1063/1.5094311...

... , A. K. , and Saha , A. , “ Introduction to nano-energetic materials ,” in Nano-Energetic Materials ( Springer , 2019 ), pp. 3 – 7 . Ghosh , A. , Scaling Laws ( Springer , New York, NY , 2011 ), pp. 61 – 94 . 10.1007/978-1-4419-9601-52 Madou , M. J. , From MEMS to Bio...

... al. , “ Mechanics and dynamics of the strain-induced M1-M2 structural phase transition in individual VO₂ nanowires ,” Nano Lett.   11 , 3207 – 3213 ( 2011 ). 10.1021/nl201460v He , X. , Xu , T. , Xu , X.   et al. , “ In situ atom scale visualization of domain wall...

... in the presence of analytes in low concentration ( Basu et al., 2021a , 2021b ). The present biosensing technology with a micro/nano cantilever-based platform can satisfy these requirements of multiple target detection with high sensitivity and low analyte concentration ( Adreeja et al., 2017...

... suitable for MEMS scale integration due to their relatively simple development methods. The reported multi-frequency approaches can be divided into two major groups. The first group consists of an array of generators with different dimensions ( Sari et al., 2008 ; and Xue et al., 2008...

... anomalous mechanical behavior of fabricated SU-8 thin film micro-cantilevers ,” J. Micromanuf.   3 ( 2 ), 113 – 120 ( 2020a ). 10.1177/2516598420930988 Basu , A. K. , Basu , A. , and Bhattacharya , S. , “ Micro/nano fabricated cantilever based biosensor platform: A review and recent...

... al., 2019 ). Theory and computations have a couple of unique advantages: (i) they can help us identify the underlying mechanisms at different length scales and (ii) aid experiments by predicting properties of new materials without actually synthesizing them. Materials modeling spans across...

.... Phys.   80 , 2234 – 2252 ( 1996 ). 10.1063/1.363052 Fitzgerald , E. A. , Lee , M. L. , Leitz , C. W. , and Antoniadis , D. A. , “ MOSFET channel engineering using strained Si, SiGe, and Ge channels ,” in Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems (AMMNS) (MIT Library...

... , J. S. , Ruiz-Vargas , C. S. , Whitney , W. S. , Pham , P. H. Q.   et al. , “ Large-scale arrays of single-layer graphene resonators ,” Nano Lett.   10 ( 12 ), 4869 – 4873 ( 2010 ). 10.1021/nl102713c van Toan , N. , Toda , M. , Hokama , T. , and Ono , T...

.../j.ijsolstr.2016.01.007 Woo , C. and Zheng , Y. , “ Depolarization in modeling nano-scale ferroelectrics using the landau free energy functional ,” Appl. Phys. A   91 ( 1 ), 59 – 63 ( 2008 ). 10.1007/s00339-007-4355-4 Zhang , W. and Bhattacharya , K. , “ A computational model...

... ). Δa and Δc correspond to the difference in the lattice parameters a and c from their average at 0 kV/cm, respectively. Summary Several examples of strain measurement at the nano and atomic scales via electron microscopy are reviewed in this chapter. It is highly beneficial...

... with the principle of relativity and space and time can be visualized in the same coordinate system even though they are distinct and incompatible. Advanced techniques in science and engineering are used for the new genre of art. Nano-art uses synthetic structures with features sized at the nano-meter scale...