There is a need for noninvasive techniques for simultaneous imaging of the stress and vibration mode shapes of nanomechanical systems in the fields of scanning probe microscopy, nanomechanical biological and chemical sensors and the semiconductor industry. Here we show a novel technique that combines a scanning laser, the beam deflection method and digital multifrequency excitation and analysis for simultaneous imaging of the static out-of-plane displacement and the shape of five vibration modes of nanomechanical systems.
Javier Tamayo et al, Nanotechnology (2012), 23 315501
Source: http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/23/31/315501?fromSearchPage=true
Our PhD students Javier Escobar and Juan Molina have been able to control the transport of extremely small amounts of liquids, in the order of zeptoliters (1 zL = 10-21 L), when these flow along resonant nanofluidic channels. Álvaro San Paulo, responsible for the work, explains: “What we have achieved is to measure with precision…
