Recent advances in silicon nanowire biosensors: synthesis methods, properties, and applications

P Namdari, H Daraee, A Eatemadi - Nanoscale research letters, 2016 - Springer
The application of silicon nanowire (SiNW) biosensor as a subtle, label-free, and electrical
tool has been extensively demonstrated by several researchers over the past few decades …

Force sensing with nanowire cantilevers

FR Braakman, M Poggio - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanometer-scale structures with high aspect ratios such as nanowires and nanotubes
combine low mechanical dissipation with high resonance frequencies, making them ideal …

Nanofabrication of arrays of silicon field emitters with vertical silicon nanowire current limiters and self-aligned gates

SA Guerrera, AI Akinwande - Nanotechnology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We developed a fabrication process for embedding a dense array (10 8 cm− 2) of high-
aspect-ratio silicon nanowires (200 nm diameter and 10 μm tall) in a dielectric matrix and …

Mass and stiffness spectrometry of nanoparticles and whole intact bacteria by multimode nanomechanical resonators

O Malvar, JJ Ruz, PM Kosaka, CM Domínguez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The identification of species is a fundamental problem in analytical chemistry and biology.
Mass spectrometers identify species by their molecular mass with extremely high sensitivity …

High dynamic range nanowire resonators

J Molina, JE Escobar, D Ramos, E Gil-Santos… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Dynamic range quantifies the linear operation regime available in nanomechanical
resonators. Nonlinearities dominate the response of flexural beams in the limit of very high …

Controlling the color and effective refractive index of metal-anodic aluminum oxide (AAO)–Al nanostructures: Morphology of AAO

CV Manzano, D Ramos, L Petho, G Burki… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Metal-anodic aluminum oxide (AAO)–Al nanostructures have been deposited by using
sputtering for the metal layer deposition and a two-step anodization process in different …

Plasmomechanical resonators based on dimer nanoantennas

R Thijssen, TJ Kippenberg, A Polman, E Verhagen - Nano letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nanomechanical resonators are highly suitable as sensors of minute forces, displacements,
or masses. We realize a single plasmonic dimer antenna of subwavelength size, integrated …

Effect of water-DNA interactions on elastic properties of DNA self-assembled monolayers

CM Domínguez, D Ramos, JI Mendieta-Moreno… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
DNA-water interactions have revealed as very important actor in DNA mechanics, from the
molecular to the macroscopic scale. Given the particularly useful properties of DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving the adhesive behavior of 1D materials: A review of experimental approaches

JL Mead, S Wang, S Zimmermann, S Fatikow, H Huang - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The adhesive behavior of one-dimensional (1D) materials, such as nanotubes and
nanowires, plays a decisive role in the effective fabrication, functionality, and reliability of …

High-sensitivity linear piezoresistive transduction for nanomechanical beam resonators

M Sansa, M Fernández-Regúlez, J Llobet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Highly sensitive conversion of motion into readable electrical signals is a crucial and
challenging issue for nanomechanical resonators. Efficient transduction is particularly …