Analysis of deflection enhancement using epsilon assembly microcantilevers based sensors

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9260-9274

  Khaled, Abdul Rahim A ^a   Vafai, Kambiz ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Deflection; Detection; Enhancement; Microcantilever

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; MINIATURIZATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80054999417     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s111009260     Document Type: Article

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