AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition
    MEMS and NEMS Thursday Sessions
       Session MN+BI-ThM

Paper MN+BI-ThM3
Inertial Imaging with Nanoelectromechanical Systems

Thursday, November 10, 2016, 8:40 am, Room 102B

Session: ‘Fantastic Voyage’ – the New Micro/Nano/Bio Systems Frontiers
Presenter: Selim Hanay, Bilkent University, Turkey
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Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) resonators can be used as exquisite sensors of physical quantities, such as mass, force and spin. As the size of a mechanical sensor shrinks, its responsivity increases: combining this advantage with low-noise readout schemes has enabled extreme sensitivity levels to be achieved such as the detection of electronic spins, single-cells in liquid and volatile chemicals at low concentration. It has become possible to use NEMS sensors for single-molecule analysis: for instance, the mass of single molecules can be measured by NEMS, paving the road for sensitive biochemical analysis. Another sensing modality, for single-biomolecule analysis, has been recently discovered. It was shown that spatial properties of analyte particles, such as its size and degree of asymmetry, can be extracted by tracking multiple mechanical modes of a sensor. Such multimodal mesaurement provides both size and shape information, as well as, the mass of the analyte. Furthermore, by combining spatial information, an image of the analyte can be constructed. The new technique, Inertial Imaging, transforms the capabilities of nanomechanical sensors to a new level: the combined data of molecular mass, size and shape of the analyte can enable previously unattainable information in biomolecular analytics. In this talk details for the implementation of this technique as well as experimental progress for single molecule detection will be presented.