Abstract: In recent years, MEMS/NEMS (Micro-/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems) sensors have attracted tremendous interest among researchers due to their low cost, quick response time, as well as high sensitivity and selectivity. In this paper, an ultra sensitive acetone sensor based on carbon nanotube (CNT) structure is proposed. In this device, a carbon nanotube is anchored to a substrate in on...

We propose a dynamic operational mode and the resulting dynamic line narrowing as a method for enhancing the resolution and the detection limit of high-quality (high-Q) resonant optical sensors. Using a silica microtoroid as an experimental platform, we demonstrate that dynamic line narrowing through the thermo-optic effect can significantly improve the detection limit in both resonant shift an...

We study the resonant wavelength of nanograting structures covered by a dielectric medium. We find that the resonant wavelength oscillates as the thickness of the thin dielectric layer increases due to the cavity formed by the dielectric layer. The amplitude of this oscillation in the resonant wavelength is small when the minimum reflection occurs in the nanograting structure. For a plasmonic s...

In this letter, we characterize the internal dissipation of coated micro-cantilevers through their mechanical thermal noise. Using a home-made interferometric setup, we achieve a resolution down to 10 m/ √ Hz in the measurement of their deflection. With the use of the fluctuation dissipation theorem and of the Kramers-Kronig relations, we rebuilt the full mechanical response function from the m...