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 Femtogram Mass Detection



Numerous sizes of cantilevers produced for detecting particles of differing masses. When the particles attach to the cantilevers, they change the resonant frequency of the cantilevers in a mass-dependent measurable way.


Source: Lavrik and Datskos, Applied Physics Letters, 21 April 2003

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