Zeptogram-scale nanomechanical mass sensing

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 583-586

  Yang, Y T ^a,b   Callegari, C ^a,c   Feng, X L ^a   Ekinci, K L ^a,d   Roukes, M L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b M/S 9106   (United States)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INERTIAL MASS SENSING; MASS NOISE; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NEMS); VERY HIGH FREQUENCY (VHF);

MACROMOLECULES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; XENON;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; GASES; MECHANICS; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33646398888     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl052134m     Document Type: Article

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