Entry Date:
May 11, 2010

CNTs-Based MEMS/NEMS Force-Displacement Sensors

Principal Investigator Martin Culpepper


The electrical resistance of many CNTs is sensitive to strain. If one can understand how to model, design/optimize, fabricate and manufacture CNT-based strain sensors, it becomes possible to engineer low-cost MEMS and NEMS-based:

(*) Force sensors with picoNewton resolution
(*) Displacement sensors with angstrom-level resolution
(*) Multi-axis accelerometers