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  1. Nanoelectromechanical photothermal polarization microscopy with 3 Å localization precision

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, October 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  2. Thermal radiation dominated heat transfer in nanomechanical silicon nitride drum resonators

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  3. Influence of clamp-widening on the quality factor of nanomechanical silicon nitride resonators

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, October 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  4. Effect of oxygen plasma on nanomechanical silicon nitride resonators

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  5. Nanomechanical Infrared Spectroscopy with Vibrating Filters for Pharmaceutical Analysis

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, March 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  6. Blu-Ray-based micromechanical characterization platform for biopolymer degradation assessment

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, March 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  7. Position and mode dependent optical detection back-action in cantilever beam resonators

    Article • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, January 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  8. Fabrication and characterization of Au dimer antennas on glass pillars with enhanced plasmonic response

    Article • Nanophotonics, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  9. Nanomechanical IR spectroscopy for fast analysis of liquid-dispersed engineered nanomaterials

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, October 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  10. Nanomechanical Pyrolytic Carbon Resonators: Novel Fabrication Method and Characterization of Mechanical Properties

    Article • Sensors, July 2016, MDPI AG

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  11. Nonlinear optomechanical measurement of mechanical motion

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2016, Nature

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  12. Fundamentals of Nanomechanical Resonators

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  13. Organic Resonant MEMS Devices

    Article • August 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  14. Micromechanical fast quasi-static detection of α and β relaxations with nanograms of polymer

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, May 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  15. Applications of plasmonics: general discussion

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Silvan Schmid, Samir Kumar

  16. Evidence of Surface Loss as Ubiquitous Limiting Damping Mechanism in SiN Micro- and Nanomechanical Resonators

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  17. Low-Power Photothermal Probing of Single Plasmonic Nanostructures with Nanomechanical String Resonators

    Article • Nano Letters, May 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  18. Demonstration of suppressed phonon tunneling losses in phononic bandgap shielded membrane resonators for high-Q optomechanics

    Article • Optics Express, March 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  19. Optical detection of radio waves through a nanomechanical transducer

    Article • Nature, March 2014, Nature

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  20. Single-layer graphene on silicon nitride micromembrane resonators

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, February 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  21. Micromechanical String Resonators: Analytical Tool for Thermal Characterization of Polymers

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, January 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  22. Nanomechanical identification of liquid reagents in a microfluidic channel

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  23. Photothermal probing of plasmonic hotspots with nanomechanical resonator

    Article • January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  24. Interface losses in multimaterial resonators

    Article • January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  25. Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Airborne Samples with Mechanical String Resonators

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, November 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  26. Online measurement of mass density and viscosity of pL fluid samples with suspended microchannel resonator

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, August 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  27. Photothermal Analysis of Individual Nanoparticulate Samples Using Micromechanical Resonators

    Article • ACS Nano, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  28. Towards airborne nanoparticle mass spectrometry with nanomechanical string resonators

    Article • June 2013, SPIE

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  29. Resonant photothermal IR spectroscopy of picogram samples with microstring resonator

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  30. Optical readout of coupling between a nanomembrane and an LC circuit at room temperature

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  31. Real-time single airborne nanoparticle detection with nanomechanical resonant filter-fiber

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2013, Nature

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  32. Micro string resonators as temperature sensors

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  33. Damping mechanisms in high- Q micro and nanomechanical string resonators

    Article • Physical Review B, October 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  34. Fabrication of resonant micro cantilevers with integrated transparent fluidic channel

    Article • Microelectronic Engineering, August 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  35. Fabrication and characterization of SRN/SU-8 bimorph cantilevers for temperature sensing

    Article • Microelectronic Engineering, August 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  36. Deposition of biopolymer films on micromechanical sensors

    Article • Microelectronic Engineering, August 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  37. Ultrasensitive string-based temperature sensors

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  38. Cantilever-like micromechanical sensors

    Article • Reports on Progress in Physics, February 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  39. Superparamagnetic photocurable nanocomposite for the fabrication of microcantilevers

    Article • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, January 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  40. Quality factor improvement of silicon nitride micro string resonators

    Article • January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  41. Micromechanical sensors for the measurement of biopolymer degradation

    Article • January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  42. Investigations on antibody binding to a micro-cantilever coated with a BAM pesticide residue

    Article • Nanoscale Research Letters, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Silvan Schmid, Dr Rafael Taboryski

  43. Real-Time Particle Mass Spectrometry Based on Resonant Micro Strings

    Article • Sensors, August 2010, MDPI AG

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  44. Position and mass determination of multiple particles using cantilever based mass sensors

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  45. Modeling the Kelvin polarization force actuation of micro- and nanomechanical systems

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, March 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  46. Superparamagnetic photosensitive polymer nanocomposite for microactuators

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  47. Influence of air humidity on polymeric microresonators

    Article • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, May 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  48. Biosensor based on All-Polymer Resonant Microbeams

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  49. Damping mechanisms of single-clamped and prestressed double-clamped resonant polymer microbeams

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, November 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  50. Electrostatically actuated nonconductive polymer microresonators in gaseous and aqueous environment

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, July 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  51. Erratum: “Nonconductive polymer microresonators actuated by the Kelvin polarization force” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 163506 (2006)]

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, January 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  52. Electrostatically Actuated Nonconductive Polymermicroresonators with Amplified Quality Factor in Gaseous and Aqueous Environment

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  53. Nonconductive polymer microresonators actuated by the Kelvin polarization force

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, October 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Silvan Schmid

  54. Immobilisation of DNA to polymerised SU-8 photoresist

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, January 2006, Elsevier

    Prof. Silvan Schmid