Nanocantilever Beams: Modeling, Fabrication, and Applications

Part 1: Fabrication techniques of nanocantilver beam. Nanocantilever beam fabrication techniques in silicon. Nanocantilever fabrication techniques in polymer and transduction techniques for nano-electro-mechanical-sensing. Part 2: Nonlinearity of nanocantilever beam resonators. Nonlinear dynamics and its applications in nanocantilevers. Intentional nonlinearity for design of micro/nanomechnical resonators. Part 3: Applications of Nanocantilever beams. Electromechanical properties and applications of carbon nanotube nanocantilevers. Membrane-type Surface Stress Sensor (MSS). Mechanical Properties Characterization of PZT Nanofibers. Micro-and Nanomechanical String Resonators. Optical transduction and actuation of subwavelength nanomechanical resonators. Cantilever resonanace detection using nanophotonic structure. Integrated silicon optmechanical transducers and their application in atomic force microscopy. Nanostuctures for gas sensing applications. Bimaterial nanocantilever beam calormeter for biological application. Advances and challenges to bring nanomechanical biosensors to biochemistry labs and clinical use. Nanocantilever beam as biological sensors. Micro/nano Mechanical Cantilever for Cancer Diagnosis.