The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Compared to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene possesses high strength due to wrinkled
surface texture caused by a high density of surface defects which benefits more contact with …

Understanding the fracture and failure properties of graphene is a critical step towards
integrating graphene into electromechanical devices and flexible electronics. However, the …

The demand for graphene-based devices is rapidly growing but there are significant
challenges for developing scalable and repeatable processes for the manufacturing of …

Open chain and closed chain manipulators are designed for specific objectives. Closed
chain five bar manipulator is possible to be configured as a substitute to an open chain two …

This study presents chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of high-quality monolayer
graphene on 100 nm-thick Pt thin films deposited on TiO2-coated silicon wafers …

This paper presents graphene growth on Pt thin films deposited with four different adhesion
layers: Ti, Cr, Ta, and Ni. During the graphene growth at 1000° C using conventional …

Main goal of research is to measure mechanical properties of graphene grown under
different conditions mainly controlling growth substrate and growth pressure of the graphene …

This paper presents the design of a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) utilizing
controllably strained graphene to create repeatable nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) …