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Origins of microwave losses in superconducting circuits made with silicon-on-insulator substrates
Simon Messelot, Nicolas Aparicio, Kazi Rafsanjani Amin +11
Silicon-on-insulator technology is widely used to fabricate silicon based devices, from advanced transistors to photonic circuits or nanomechanical systems. Integrating low loss su…
Amplitude stabilization in a synchronized nonlinear nanomechanical oscillator
Martial Defoort, Sébastien Hentz, Steven W. Shaw +1
In contrast to the well-known phenomenon of frequency stabilization in a synchronized noisy nonlinear oscillator, little is known about its amplitude stability. In this paper, we i…
A CMOS compatible platform for high impedance superconducting quantum circuits
Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Carine Ladner, Guillaume Jourdan +3
Aluminium based platforms have allowed to reach major milestones for superconducting quantum circuits. For the next generation of devices, materials that are able to maintain low m…
Very high frequency probes for atomic force microscopy with silicon optomechanics
L Schwab, P Allain, N Mauran +8
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been constantly supporting nanosciences and nanotechnologies for over 30 years, being present in many fields from condensed matter physics to biol…
Real-time sensing with multiplexed optomechanical resonators
Fabrice Lamberti, Ujwol Palanchoke, Thijs Geurts +7
Nanoelectromechanical resonators have been successfully used for a variety of sensing applications. Their extreme resolution comes from their small size at the cost of low capture…
Optomechanical mass spectrometry
Marc Sansa, Martial Defoort, Ariel Brenac +8
It has been demonstrated in the recent years that nanomechanical mass spectrometry was well suited for the analysis of specific high mass species such as viruses. Still, the exclus…
Optomechanical Resonating Probe for Very High Speed Sensing of Atomic Forces
Pierre Etienne Allain, Lucien Schwab, Colin Misner +10
Atomic force spectroscopy and microscopy (AFM) are invaluable tools to characterize nanostructures and biological systems. Most experiments, including state-of-the-art images of mo…
Charge-independent mass spectrometry of single virus capsids above 100MDa with nanomechanical resonators
Sergio Dominguez-Medina, Shawn Fostner, Martial Defoort +10
Most technologies, including conventional mass spectrometry, struggle to measure the mass of particles in the MDa to GDa range. Although this mass range appears optimal for nanomec…
Single-particle Mass Spectrometry with arrays of frequency-addressed nanomechanical resonators
Eric Sage, Marc Sansa, Shawn Fostner +12
One of the main challenges to overcome to perform nanomechanical Mass Spectrometry (NEMS-MS) analysis in a practical time frame stems from the size mismatch between the analyte bea…
Frequency fluctuations in silicon nanoresonators
Marc Sansa, Eric Sage, Elizabeth C. Bullard +9
Frequency stability is key to performance of nanoresonators. This stability is thought to reach a limit with the resonator's ability to resolve thermally-induced vibrations. Althou…
Overcoming limitations of nanomechanical resonators with simultaneous resonances
Najib Kacem, Sébastien Baguet, Laurent Duraffourg +3
Dynamic stabilization by simultaneous primary and superharmonic resonances for high order nonlinearity cancellation is demonstrated with an electrostatically-actuated, piezoresisti…
Neutral particle Mass Spectrometry with Nanomechanical Systems
Eric Sage, Ariel Brenac, Thomas Alava +7
Current approaches to Mass Spectrometry (MS) require ionization of the analytes of interest. For high-mass species, the resulting charge state distribution can be complex and diffi…
High Frequency top-down Junction-less Silicon Nanowire Resonators
Alexandra Koumela, Sébastien Hentz, Denis Mercier +5
We report here the first realization of top-down silicon nanowires (SiNW) transduced by both junction-less field effect transistor (FET) and the piezoresistive (PZR) effect. The su…
Comparison of capacitive and frequential readout when scaling accelerometers down from Micro- to Nano- Electro Mechanical Systems
Sébastien Hentz, Laurent Duraffourg, Eric Colinet
This paper shows the effect of scaling silicon accelerometers down from MEMS to NEMS. It models both electronics and Brownian noise sources for both capacitive and resonant devices…
Self-oscillation conditions of a resonant-nano-electromechanical mass sensor
Eric Colinet, Laurent Duraffourg, Sebastien Labarthe +3
This article presents a comprehensive study and design methodology of co-integrated oscillators for nano mass sensing application based on resonant Nano-Electro-Mechanical-System (…
Compact and explicit physical model for lateral metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor with nanoelectromechanical system based resonant gate
Laurent Duraffourg, Eric Colinet, Sebastien Hentz +4
We propose a simple analytical model of a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor with a lateral resonant gate based on the coupled electromechanical equations, which are…
In-plane nanoelectromechanical resonators based on silicon nanowire piezoresistive detection
Ervin Mile, Guillaume Jourdan, Igor Bargatin +7
We report an actuation/detection scheme with a top-down nano-electromechanical system for frequency shift-based sensing applications with outstanding performance. It relies on elec…