Nanotubes as mass sensors

Nature India ◽  
2011 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Jiatai Ren ◽  
Hequn Chu ◽  
Yuhui Bai ◽  
Rui Wang ◽  
Pengguang Chen ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Rajendran Selvamani ◽  
M. Mahaveer Sree Jayan ◽  
Rossana Dimitri ◽  
Francesco Tornabene ◽  
Farzad Ebrahimi

AbstractThe present paper aims at studying the nonlinear ultrasonic waves in a magneto-thermo-elastic armchair single-walled (SW) carbon nanotube (CNT) with mass sensors resting on a polymer substrate. The analytical formulation accounts for small scale effects based on the Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity theory. The mathematical model and its differential equations are solved theoretically in terms of dimensionless frequencies while assuming a nonlinear Winkler-Pasternak-type foundation. The solution is obtained by means of ultrasonic wave dispersion relations. A parametric work is carried out to check for the effect of the nonlocal scaling parameter, together with the magneto-mechanical loadings, the foundation parameters, the attached mass, boundary conditions and geometries, on the dimensionless frequency of nanotubes. The sensitivity of the mechanical response of nanotubes investigated herein, could be of great interest for design purposes in nano-engineering systems and devices.


2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pallay ◽  
Shahrzad Towfighian

Parametric resonators that show large amplitude of vibration are highly desired for sensing applications. In this paper, a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) parametric resonator with a flexible support that uses electrostatic fringe fields to achieve resonance is introduced. The resonator shows a 50% increase in amplitude and a 50% decrease in threshold voltage compared with a fixed support cantilever model. The use of electrostatic fringe fields eliminates the risk of pull-in and allows for high amplitudes of vibration. We studied the effect of decreasing boundary stiffness on steady-state amplitude and found that below a threshold chaotic behavior can occur, which was verified by the information dimension of 0.59 and Poincaré maps. Hence, to achieve a large amplitude parametric resonator, the boundary stiffness should be decreased but should not go below a threshold when the chaotic response will appear. The resonator described in this paper uses a crab-leg spring attached to a cantilever beam to allow for both translation and rotation at the support. The presented study is useful in the design of mass sensors using parametric resonance (PR) to achieve large amplitude and signal-to-noise ratio.


2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Di Natale ◽  
R. Paolesse ◽  
A. Macagnano ◽  
S. Nardis ◽  
E. Martinelli ◽  
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