Research Interests

Nanoscale electronic and mechanical devices, exploring their uses as novel and ultrasensitive sensors and imaging devices.

Selected Publications

• A.N. Cleland and M.L. Roukes, "External control of dissipation in radiofrequency mechanical resonators", Sensors and Actuators A 72, 256-261(1999).
• A.N. Cleland and M.L. Roukes, "Nanostructure-based mechanical electrometry", Nature 392, 160 (1998).
• A.N. Cleland and M.L. Roukes, "Fabrication and measurement of nanometer scale single crystal Si mechanical resonators", Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 2653 (1996).
• N.F. Schwabe, A.N. Cleland, M.C. Cross and M.L Roukes, "Perturbation of tunneling processes by mechanical degrees of freedom in mesoscopic tunnel junctions", Phys. Rev. B 52, 12911 (1995).
• A.N. Cleland, D. Esteve, C. Urbina and M.H. Devoret, "A very low noise photodetector based on the single-electron transistor", Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 2820 (1992).