Toward Ultrasmall Mass Detection Using Adaptive Self-Sensing Piezoelectrically Driven Microcantilevers

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 680-688

  Gurjar, Miheer ^a   Jalili, Nader ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive self sensing; mass estimation; microcantilever sensors; piezoelectric actuation; self sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008054171     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: 1941014X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.911635     Document Type: Article

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