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

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

The field of cavity optomechanics is reviewed. This field explores the interaction between
electromagnetic radiation and nanomechanical or micromechanical motion. This review …

The monitoring of acceleration is essential for a variety of applications ranging from inertial
navigation to consumer electronics,. Typical accelerometer operation involves the sensitive …

Nanoelectromechanical systems were fabricated from single-and multilayer graphene
sheets by mechanically exfoliating thin sheets from graphite over trenches in silicon oxide …

The field of cantilever-based sensing emerged in the mid-1990s and is today a well-known
technology for label-free sensing which holds promise as a technique for cheap, portable …

Nanoelectromechanical systems NEMS are drawing interest from both technical and
scientific communities. These are electromechanical systems, much like …

We propose an experiment for creating quantum superposition states involving of the order
of 10 14 atoms via the interaction of a single photon with a tiny mirror. This mirror, mounted …

Scanning probe microscopies (SPM) and cantilever-based sensors generally use low-
frequency mechanical devices of microscale dimensions or larger. Almost universally, off …

Nanoscale mechanical oscillators are used as ultrasensitive detectors of force, mass and
charge. Nanomechanical oscillators have also been coupled with optical and electronic …