AVS 53rd International Symposium
    MEMS and NEMS Tuesday Sessions

Session MN-TuM
Material Aspects of MEMS and NEMS

Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 8:00 am, Room 2007
Moderator: C. Zorman, Case Western Reserve University


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8:00am MN-TuM1 Invited Paper
Controlled Fabrication of Nanotube Devices using Nanotubes of Known (n,m) Indices
J. Hone, Columbia University
8:40am MN-TuM3
Compensation of Strain Gradient by Varying Dopant Profile during the Growth of Polycrystalline Silicon Carbide Films
J. Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, R. Howe, Stanford University, R. Maboudian, University of California, Berkeley
9:00am MN-TuM4
Characterization of APCVD and LPCVD Based Polycrystalline 3C-Silicon Carbide Resonators
W.C. Chang, C. Zorman, M. Mehregany, Case Western Reserve University
9:20am MN-TuM5
NEMS and AFM Cantilevers Synthesized from Metal Nanocomposites
C. Ophus, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, Z. Lee, NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, E. Luber, N. Nelson-Fitzpatrick, R. Mohammadi, C. Gilkison, L.M. Fischer, S. Evoy, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, V. Radmilovic, U. Dahmen, NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, D. Mitlin, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
10:40am MN-TuM9 Invited Paper
Gray-scale Technology for 3-D Static and Dynamic MEMS
R. Ghodssi, University of Maryland
11:20am MN-TuM11
Effects of Tensile Stress and Viscous Damping on the Resonance of Nanomechanical Beams and Cantilevers
S.S. Verbridge, L.M. Bellan, R.B. Reichenbach, J.M. Parpia, H.G. Craighead, Cornell University
11:40am MN-TuM12
Piezoelectric-Diamond Hybrid Heterostructures for High Performance MEMS/NEMS Devices
S. Srinivasan, J. Hiller, O. Auciello, A.V. Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory