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December 05, 2013

Ultra-sensitive force sensing with a levitating nanoparticle
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Dec 03, 2013
A recent study led by researchers of the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) achieved the highest force sensitivity ever observed with a nano-mechanical resonator. The scientific results of this study have been published in Nature Physics. Nano- and micromechanical oscillators with high quality (Q) factors have gained much attention for their potential application in sensing, signal processing and transduction as well as in fundamental research aiming at observing quantum effects in increasingly ... read more

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