Recently, there has been growing interest in sensors based on frequency shift detection of mechanical resonators that has led to new and sensitive diagnostic methods for medicine and biology. The aim of our research activity is the design and fabrication of smart microelectromechanical systems dedicated to the sensing and manipulation of small amount of molecules or structures of biological interest.
Our way to the single molecule detection is based on the exploitation of the mechanical behaviour of a complex system rather than on the pushing of the operative conditions of simple resonators to the extreme ranges.
