Graphene electrodes revolutionize the scaling of piezoelectric NEMS resonators

Tiny sensors are becoming ubiquitous in an increasing number of applications for smart mobile devices, automotive, healthcare and environmental monitoring. Recent advancements in sensor miniaturization, low power consumption and low cost can be seen as a harbinger for a new era of sensing in which the data collected from multiple individual smart sensor systems are combined to get information about the environment that is more accurate and reliable than the individual sensor data.

By leveraging such sensor 'fusion' it will be possible to acquire accurate, real-time and almost complete information about the environments in which humans live, work and play. This technology provides a huge potential for the development of the Internet of Things in which physical and virtual objects are linked through the application of sensing and communication capabilities.