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Schwab KC, Roukes ML
Putting Mechanics into Quantum Mechanics
Physics Today JULY 2005

Ekinci KL, Roukes ML
Nanoelectromechanical systems
Review of Scientific Instruments 76 061101 JUN 2005

Postma HWC, Kozinsky I, Husain A, Roukes ML
Dynamic range of nanotube- and nanowire-based electromechanical systems
Applied Physics Letters 86 223105 MAY 30 2005

Bargatin I, Myers EB, Arlett J, Gudlewski B, Roukes ML
Sensitive detection of nanomechanical motion using piezoresistive signal downmixing
Applied Physics Letters 86 133109 MAR 28 2005

Honolka J, Masmanidis S, Tang HX, Roukes ML, Awschalom DD
Domain-wall dynamics at micropatterned constrictions in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As epilayers
Journal of Applied Physics 97 063903 MAR 15 2005

Roukes ML
Mechanical Computation, Redux?
IEEE IEDM Technical Digest, DEC 2004

Tang HX, Roukes ML
Electrical transport across an individual magnetic domain wall in (Ga,Mn)As microdevices
Physical Review B 70 205213 NOV 2004

Tang HX, Masmanidis S, Kawakami RK, Awshalom DD, Roukes ML
Negative intrinsic resistivity of an individual domain wall in epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As microdevices 
Nature 431 52 SEP 2004

Ekinci KL, Huang XMH, Roukes ML  
Ultrasensitive nanoelectromechanical mass detection
Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 4469 MAY 2004

Ekinci KL, Yang YT, Roukes ML
Ultimate limits to inertial mass sensing based upon nanoelectromechanical systems
J. Appl. Phys. 95 2682 MAR 2004

Bargatin I & Roukes ML
Nanomechanical Analog of a Laser: Amplification of Mechanical Oscillations by Stimulated Zeeman Transitions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 138302 SEP 2003

Husain A, Hone J, Postma HWCh, Huang XMH, Drake T, Barbic M, Scherer A, Roukes ML
Nanowire-based very-high-frequency electromechanical resonator
Appl. Phys. Lett. 83 1240 AUG 2003

Tang HX, Kawakami RK, Awschalom DD & Roukes ML
Giant Planar Hall Effect in Epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As Devices
Physical Review Letters 90 07201 March 14 2003

Huang XMH, Zorman CA, Mehregany M & Roukes ML
Nanodevice Motion at Microwave Frequencies
Nature 421 496 JAN 30 2003

Cho, Andrian
Researchers Race to Put Quantum Into Mechanics
Science 299 36-37 JAN 3 2003

Buks E & Roukes ML
Electrically Tunable Collective Response in a Coupled Micromechanical Array
JMEMS 11 (6) 802-807 DEC 2002

Tang HX, Huang XMH, Roukes ML, et al.
Two-dimaensional electron-gas actuation and transduction for GaAs nanoelectromechanical systems
Appl.Phys.Lett. 81 (20) 3879-3881 NOV 2002

Ekinci KE, Yang YT, Huang XMH, Roukes ML
Balanced electronic detection of displacement in nanoelectromechanical systems
Appl.Phys.Lett., 81 (12), 2253-2255 SEP 2002

Tang HX, Monzon FG, Jedema FJ et al.
Spin Injection and Transport in Micro and Nanoscale Devices
Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation,
D.D. Awschalom, N. Samarth and D. Loss eds. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2002

Buks E, Roukes ML
Quantum physics: Casimir force changes sign
Nature 419 (6903): 119-120 SEP 12 2002

Fon W, Schwab KC, Worlock JM, et al.
Phonon scattering mechanisms in suspended nanostructures from 4 to 40 K
PHYS REV B 66 (4): art. no. 045302 JUL 15 2002

Cleland AN, Roukes ML
Noise processes in nanomechanical resonators
J APPL PHYS 92 (5): 2758-2769 SEP 1 2002

Suter A, Pelekhov DV, Roukes ML, etal.
Probe-sample coupling in the magnetic resonance force microscope
J MAGN RESON 154 (2): 210-227 FEB 2002

Wolf SA et al.
Spintronics: A spin-based electronics vision for the future
SCIENCE 294 (5546): 1488-1495 NOV 16 2001

Roukes ML
Plenty of Room Indeed
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 285: (3) 48-57 SEP 2001

Roukes ML
Electronics in a spin
NATURE 411: (6839) 747-748 JUN 14 2001

Buks E, Roukes ML
Metastability and the Casimir effect in micromechanical systems
EUROPHYS LETT 54: (2) 220-226 APR 2001

Schwab K, Arlett JL, Worlock JM, et al.
Thermal conductance through discrete quantum channels
PHYSICA E 9: (1) 60-68 JAN 2001

Roukes M
Nanoelectromechanical systems face the future
PHYS WORLD 14: (2) 25-31 FEB 2001

Buks E, Roukes ML
Stiction, adhesion energy, and the Casimir effect in micromechanical systems - art. no. 033402
PHYS REV B 63: (3) 033402-+ JAN 15 2001

Blick RH, Monzon FG, Wegscheider W, et al.
Magnetotransport measurements on freely suspended two-dimensional electron gases
PHYS REV B 62: (24) 17103-17107 DEC 15 2000

Yang YT, Ekinci KL, Huang XMH, et al.
Monocrystalline silicon carbide nanoelectromechanical systems
APPL PHYS LETT 78: (2) 162-164 JAN 8 2001

Mohanty P, Harrington DA, Roukes ML
Measurement of small forces in micron-sized resonators
PHYSICA B 284: 2143-2144 Part 2 JUL 2000

Harrington DA, Mohanty P, Roukes ML
Energy dissipation in suspended micromechanical resonators at low temperatures
PHYSICA B 284: 2145-2146 Part 2 JUL 2000

Monzon FG, Tang HX, Roukes ML
Magnetoelectronic phenomena at a ferromagnet-semiconductor interface
PHYS REV LETT 84: (21) 5022-5022 MAY 22 2000

Midzor MM, Wigen PE, Pelekhov D, et al.
Imaging mechanisms of force detected FMR microscopy
J APPL PHYS 87: (9) 6493-6495 Part 3 MAY 1 2000

Schwab K, Henriksen EA, Worlock JM, et al.
Measurement of the quantum of thermal conductance
NATURE 404: (6781) 974-977 APR 27 2000

Schwab K, Fon W, Henriksen E, et al.
Quantized thermal conductance: measurements in nanostructures
PHYSICA B 280: (1-4) 458-459 MAY 2000

Lifshitz R, Roukes ML
Thermoelastic damping in micro- and nanomechanical systems
PHYS REV B 61: (8) 5600-5609 FEB 15 2000

Tang HX, Monzon FG, Lifshitz R, et al.
Ballistic spin transport in a two-dimensional electron gas
PHYS REV B 61: (7) 4437-4440 FEB 15 2000

M.L. Roukes,
"Yoctocalorimetry: Phonon Counting in Nanostructures",
Proceedings of the 9th Int'l Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, plenary lecture.
Physica B: Condensed Matter (263-264)1 (1999) pp. 1-15

A.N. Cleland* and M.L. Roukes,
"Nanoscale Mechanics",
Proceedings of the 24th Int'l Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, *invited presentation.
(World Scientific, 1999).

F.G. Monzon, D.S. Patterson, and M.L. Roukes,
"Characterization of Individual Nanomagnets by the Local Hall Effect",
Journ. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, xx, xxxx (1999).

A.N. Cleland and M.L. Roukes,
"External Control of Dissipation in a Nanometer-Scale Radio Frequency Mechanical Resonator",
Sensors & Actuators A, xx, xxxx (1999).

Z. Zhang, P.C. Hammel, M. Midzor, M.L. Roukes, and J.R. Childress
"Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscopy on Microscopic Cobalt Single Layer Films",
App. Phys. Lett., 73, 2036 (1998).

F.G. Monzon and M.L. Roukes,
"Spin Injection and the Local Hall Effect in InAs Quantum Wells",
Journ. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, xx, xxxx (1999).

R.H. Blick, M.L. Roukes, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler,
"Freely Suspended Two-Dimensional Electron Gases",
Physica B, 249-251, 784 (1998).

D.E. Angelescu, M.C. Cross, and M.L. Roukes,
"Heat Transport in Mesoscopic Systems",
Superlattices and Microstructures, 23, 673 (1998).
(special issue in honor of Rolf Landauer on the occasion of his 70th birthday)

B.J. Suh, P.C. Hammel, Z. Zhang, M.M. Midzor, M.L. Roukes, and J.R. Childress,
"Ferromagnetic Resonance Imaging of Co Films using Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy",
Journ. Vac. Sci. Tech. B, 16, 2275 (1998).

A.N. Cleland and M.L. Roukes,
"A Nanometer-Scale Mechanical Electrometer",
Nature, 392, 160 (1998).

F.G. Monzon, M. Johnson, and M.L. Roukes,
"Strong Hall voltage modulation in hybrid ferromagnet/semiconductor microstructures",
App. Phys. Lett., 71, 3087 (1997).

T.S. Tighe, J.M. Worlock, and M.L. Roukes,
"Direct thermal conductance measurements on suspended monocrystalline nanostructures",
App. Phys. Lett., 70, 2687 (1997).

Z. Zhang, M.L. Roukes, and P.C. Hammel,
"Sensitivity and spatial resolution for electron spin resonance detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy",
Journ. App. Phys. 80, 6931 (1996)

B. Yurke, M.L. Roukes, R. Movshovich, and A.N. Pargellis,
"A low-noise, series-array Josephson junction parametric amplifier.",
App. Phys. Lett., 69, 3079 (1996).

A.N. Cleland and M.L. Roukes,
"Fabrication of high frequency nanometer scale mechanical resonators from bulk Si substrates.",
App. 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 junctions",
Phys. Rev. B 52, 12911 (1995)

P.C. Hammel, Z. Zhang, G.J. Moore, and M.L. Roukes,
"Subsurface imaging with the magnetic resonance force microscope",
Journ. Low Temp. Phys., 101, 59 (1995)


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