A report of a novel nano-scale device, designed and fabricated entirely in Turkey, has just been published in Physical Review Letters, one of the most prestigious journals in the field of Physics. The study was also selected as an Editor’s Suggestion and highlighted with a news piece in the Physics websites of the American Physics Society and phys.org.
The study was undertaken by the team of Dr. Selim Hanay, one of the first graduates of Sabancı University, who is currently working at Bilkent University Department of Mechanical Engineering. Meanwhile, a significant part of the prototype device fabrication was accomplished in Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). The study demonstrates for the first time that a nano-sized silicon beam can be buckled in a controlled manner with cleverly designed nano electro-mechanical system based electro-static architecture.
Full Electrostatic Control of Nanomechanical Buckling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046101 (2020)
SUNUM Nanofabrication Team Leader Dr. Cenk Yanık was mainly responsible for the nanofabrication process of the devices. Reporting on the project, Dr. Yanık said, “it is very exciting and I am proud to be involved in this kind of first-class research, where novel concept designs are demonstrated for the first time in the world. SUNUM has a state-of-the-art 100 kV electron beam lithography system (the only such system open to all users in Turkey), which played a critical role in the fabrication of this world-class nano-scale prototype device.SUNUM is pleased to provide such production services with its expert technical staff.”