Nanofluidic resonators

The suspended nanochannel resonator represents one of the best tradeoff in terms of costs of instrumentations and easy sample preparation to identify localized masses such as single nanoparticles, Indeed, the coupling of a nanofluidic channel with a miniaturized mechanical resonator offers the possibility to characterize samples directly in liquid with very high mass resolution.

Our research is devoted to the design and the characterization of these devices to better understand their potentialities and limitations in the sensing field. The fabrication is done in collaboration with the Advanced NEMS group of Prof. Villanueva and the LMIS4 of Prof. Renaud, at EPFL.