Fabrication of nanoscaled transistors based on carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanowires is typically demonstrated with a “pick-and-place” or similar method which allows for fabrication of small numbers of transistors at a time. While these, and other, devices have been used to demonstrate potential applications of carbon nanotubes, these methods are not applicable to wafer scale production with...

The tribological characteristics of nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) exemplified by a gigahertz oscillator are studied. Various factors that influence the tribological properties of nanotube-based NEMS are quantitatively analyzed with the use of molecular dynamics calculations of the quality factor (Q-factor) of the gigahertz oscillator. We demonstrate that commensurability o...

Electronic readout of the motions of genuinely nanoscale mechanical devices at room temperature imposes an important challenge for the integration and application of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Here, we report the first experiments on piezoresistively transduced very high frequency Si nanowire (SiNW) resonators with on-chip electronic actuation at room temperature. We have demonstrate...

Fabrication of high quality nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) is nowadays extremely efficient. These NEMS will be used as sensors and actuators in integrated systems. Their use, however, raises questions about their interface (actuation, detection, read out) with external detection and control systems. Their operation implies many fundamental questions related to single particle effects suc...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine the association between dietary outcomes and the neighbourhood food environment (street network distance from home to stores) and consumer food environment (Nutrition Environment Measurement Survey-Stores (NEMS-S) audit). DESIGN The neighbourhood food environment was captured by creating 0?5-mile and 1-mile network distance (street distance) aro...

Nanorobotics encompasses the design, fabrication, and programming of robots with overall dimensions below a few micrometers, and the programmable assembly of nanoscale objects. Nanorobots are quintessential nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and raise all the important issues that must be addressed in NEMS design: sensing, actuation, control, communications, power, and interfacing across spat...

Abbreviations MEMS Microelectromechanical systems NEMS Nano-electromechanical systems PCL Polycaprolactone PET Polyethylene terephthalate PGA Polyglycolic acid PLA Polylactic acid PU Polyurethane PTFE Poly(tetrafl uoroethylene) PMMA Polymethylmethacrylate UHMWPE Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene