Nanotransducers and Nanosystems

The objectives of the research on nanotransducers and nanosytems are the exploration of novel growth processes and the evaluation of electronic, mechanical and electromechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes as active elements in electromechanical transducers. Integrated Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS) are proposed, which will be used to study the properties of nanotransducers, which are preferably integrated into MEMS, for sensing applications.

Ongoing projects:

• Integrated nano transducers: fundamental characterization of electromechanical effects in carbon nanotubes
• Ultra-miniature pressure sensors with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as the functional transducer element
• Suspended single-walled carbon nanotube-based gas sensors (to be added soon)
  

Completed projects*:

• Development and evaluation of nanosystem transducers
• Growth and alignment of carbon nanotubes

* Click on the individual links to see details of a project and its successors