AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition
    MEMS and NEMS Friday Sessions

Session MN-FrM
Characterization for MEMS and NEMS

Friday, October 22, 2010, 8:20 am, Room Santo Domingo
Moderator: A.V. Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory


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8:20am MN-FrM1 Invited Paper
Wafer-scale Processing of Diamond Thin Films for MEMS and NEMS
J.A. Carlisle, Advanced Diamond Technologies
9:00am MN-FrM3
CMOS Integrated Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Capacitive RF-MEMS Switches
S. Balachandran, A.V. Sumant, O.H. Auciello, Argonne National Laboratory, S. O'Brien, C.L. Goldsmith, Memtronics Corporation, J.A. Carlisle, Advanced Diamond Technologies, C. Gudeman, S. Sampath, Innovative Micro Technology
9:20am MN-FrM4
Mechanical Stiffness and Dissipation in Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Resonators
V.P. Adiga, University of Pennsylvania, S. Suresh, A. Datta, Innovative Micro Technology, J.A. Carlisle, Advanced Diamond Technologies, A.V. Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory, R.W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania
9:40am MN-FrM5
Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Optically Driven Nanoelectromechanical Oscillators
R.B. Ilic, Cornell University, S.L. Krylov, Tel Aviv University, Israel, H.G. Craighead, Cornell University
10:00am MN-FrM6
Nanotribological Studies of Adaptive Optics Sliding Components in Microprojectors
B. Bhushan, H. Lee, The Ohio State University, S. Chaparala, V. Bhatia, Corning Incorporated
10:20am MN-FrM7
Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics Model for Mode I & Mode II Stiction Failure
A. Mousavi, Z.C. Leseman, University of New Mexico
10:40am MN-FrM8
Novel NEMS Gas Detectors for Micro Gas Chromatograph
C.-H. Chen, C.-J. Hsieh, H.-K. Lin, T.-S. Lee, P.-H. Chen, C.-H. Chou, National Taiwan University, Republic of China, C.-J. Lu, National Taiwan Normal University, Republic of China, W.-C. Tian, National Taiwan University, Republic of China
11:00am MN-FrM9
On the Impact of Relative Humidity and Environment Gases on Dielectric Charging Process in Capacitive RF MEMS Switches Based on Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy
U. Zaghloul, B. Bhushan, The Ohio State University, P. Pons, LAAS-CNRS, France, G.J. Papaioannou, Universite de Toulouse, France, F. Coocetti, R. Plana, LAAS-CNRS, France
11:20am MN-FrM10
Feature Size Etch Rate Dependence in Bosch Process Deep Silicon Etching Due to Local Thermal Loading
R. Kurkul, R. Gulotty, B. VanderElzen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor