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Peidong Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • self transducing silicon nanowire electromechanical systems at room temperature
    Nano Letters, 2008
    Co-Authors: X L Feng, M L Roukes, Peidong Yang
    Abstract:

    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 demonstrated that, for very thin (∼90 nm down to ∼30 nm) SiNWs, their time-varying strain can be exploited for self-transducing the devices’ resonant motions at frequencies as high as ∼100 MHz. The strain of wire elongation, which is only second-order in doubly clamped structures, enables efficient displacement transducer because of the enhanced Piezoresistance Effect in these SiNWs. This intrinsically integrated transducer is uniquely suited for a class of very thin wires and beams where metallization and multilayer complex patterning on devices become impractical. The 30 nm thin SiNW NEMS offer exceptional mass sensitivities in the subzeptogram range. This demonstration makes it promising to advance toward NEMS sensors based on ultrathin and even molecular-scale SiNWs, and their monolithic integration with microelectronics on the same chip.

  • Giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanowires
    Nature Nanotechnology, 2006
    Co-Authors: Rongrui He, Peidong Yang
    Abstract:

    The Piezoresistance Effect of silicon^ 1 has been widely used in mechanical sensors^ 2 , 3 , 4 , and is now being actively explored in order to improve the performance of silicon transistors^ 5 , 6 . In fact, strain engineering is now considered to be one of the most promising strategies for developing high-performance sub-10-nm silicon devices^ 7 . Interesting electromechanical properties have been observed in carbon nanotubes^ 8 , 9 . In this paper we report that Si nanowires possess an unusually large Piezoresistance Effect compared with bulk. For example, the longitudinal Piezoresistance coefficient along the 〈111〉 direction increases with decreasing diameter for p-type Si nanowires, reaching as high as −3,550 × 10^−11 Pa^–1, in comparison with a bulk value of −94 × 10^−11 Pa^−1. Strain-induced carrier mobility change and surface modifications have been shown to have clear influence on Piezoresistance coefficients. This giant Piezoresistance Effect in Si nanowires may have significant implications in nanowire-based flexible electronics, as well as in nanoelectromechanical systems.

Jong Hyun Ahn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy of the inverse giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanomembranes
    CLEO: 2015, 2015
    Co-Authors: Jaeseok Kim, Houk Jang, Min-seok Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong Hyun Ahn, Hyunyong Choi
    Abstract:

    We observe the clear inverse Piezoresistance Effect in the silicon nanomembranes. Thickness-dependent optical-pump terahertz spectroscopy strongly corroborate that the Effect originates from the carrier-concentration changes via charge carrier trapping into strain-induced defect states.

  • observation of the inverse giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanomembranes probed by ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy
    Nano Letters, 2014
    Co-Authors: Houk Jang, Hyunyong Choi, Jaeseok Kim, Min-seok Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong Hyun Ahn
    Abstract:

    The anomalous Piezoresistance (a-PZR) Effects, including giant PZR (GPZR) with large magnitude and inverse PZR of opposite, have exciting technological potentials for their integration into novel nanoelectromechanical systems. However, the nature of a-PZR Effect and the associated kinetics have not been clearly determined yet. Even further, there are intense research debates whether the a-PZR Effect actually exists or not; although numerous investigations have been conducted, the origin of the Effect has not been clearly understood. This paper shows the existence of a-PZR and provides direct experimental evidence through the performance of well-established electrical measurements and terahertz spectroscopy on silicon nanomembranes (Si NMs). The clear inverse PZR behavior was observed in the Si NMs when the thickness was less than 40 nm and the magnitude of the PZR response linearly increased with the decreasing thickness. Observations combined with electrical and optical measurements strongly corroborate ...

Yozo Kanda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Houk Jang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy of the inverse giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanomembranes
    CLEO: 2015, 2015
    Co-Authors: Jaeseok Kim, Houk Jang, Min-seok Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong Hyun Ahn, Hyunyong Choi
    Abstract:

    We observe the clear inverse Piezoresistance Effect in the silicon nanomembranes. Thickness-dependent optical-pump terahertz spectroscopy strongly corroborate that the Effect originates from the carrier-concentration changes via charge carrier trapping into strain-induced defect states.

  • observation of the inverse giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanomembranes probed by ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy
    Nano Letters, 2014
    Co-Authors: Houk Jang, Hyunyong Choi, Jaeseok Kim, Min-seok Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong Hyun Ahn
    Abstract:

    The anomalous Piezoresistance (a-PZR) Effects, including giant PZR (GPZR) with large magnitude and inverse PZR of opposite, have exciting technological potentials for their integration into novel nanoelectromechanical systems. However, the nature of a-PZR Effect and the associated kinetics have not been clearly determined yet. Even further, there are intense research debates whether the a-PZR Effect actually exists or not; although numerous investigations have been conducted, the origin of the Effect has not been clearly understood. This paper shows the existence of a-PZR and provides direct experimental evidence through the performance of well-established electrical measurements and terahertz spectroscopy on silicon nanomembranes (Si NMs). The clear inverse PZR behavior was observed in the Si NMs when the thickness was less than 40 nm and the magnitude of the PZR response linearly increased with the decreasing thickness. Observations combined with electrical and optical measurements strongly corroborate ...

Hyunyong Choi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy of the inverse giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanomembranes
    CLEO: 2015, 2015
    Co-Authors: Jaeseok Kim, Houk Jang, Min-seok Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong Hyun Ahn, Hyunyong Choi
    Abstract:

    We observe the clear inverse Piezoresistance Effect in the silicon nanomembranes. Thickness-dependent optical-pump terahertz spectroscopy strongly corroborate that the Effect originates from the carrier-concentration changes via charge carrier trapping into strain-induced defect states.

  • observation of the inverse giant Piezoresistance Effect in silicon nanomembranes probed by ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy
    Nano Letters, 2014
    Co-Authors: Houk Jang, Hyunyong Choi, Jaeseok Kim, Min-seok Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong Hyun Ahn
    Abstract:

    The anomalous Piezoresistance (a-PZR) Effects, including giant PZR (GPZR) with large magnitude and inverse PZR of opposite, have exciting technological potentials for their integration into novel nanoelectromechanical systems. However, the nature of a-PZR Effect and the associated kinetics have not been clearly determined yet. Even further, there are intense research debates whether the a-PZR Effect actually exists or not; although numerous investigations have been conducted, the origin of the Effect has not been clearly understood. This paper shows the existence of a-PZR and provides direct experimental evidence through the performance of well-established electrical measurements and terahertz spectroscopy on silicon nanomembranes (Si NMs). The clear inverse PZR behavior was observed in the Si NMs when the thickness was less than 40 nm and the magnitude of the PZR response linearly increased with the decreasing thickness. Observations combined with electrical and optical measurements strongly corroborate ...