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ArticleMicromachines2026

Efficient Mapping and Tracking the Properties of Micromechanical Resonators Using Phase-Lock Loops with Closely-Spaced Frequencies.

Agnes Zinth, Samer Houri, Menno Poot

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Article in Micromachines, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Agnes ZinthDepartment of Physics, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany.ORCID 0009-0007-8696-6728
Samer HouriIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2733-1366
Menno PootDepartment of Physics, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5047-8497

Funding

EU Seventh Framework Programme 291763German research foundation (DFG) EXC-2111-390814868
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Abstract

Studying the dynamical behavior of micro- and nano-mechanical systems (MEMSs and NEMSs) is essential in various fields from nonlinear dynamics to quantum technologies. Hence, it is important to precisely monitor the mechanical properties of MEMS and NEMS devices. In this work, we show how to track and spatially map various properties of a mechanical resonator, such as frequency shift, linewidth, and nonlinearity, by appropriately selecting three closely spaced drive frequencies and using phase-locked loops. This technique tracks changes in the system quickly and efficiently, without the need for repeated frequency sweeps of the oscillator response, simply by employing three phase-locked tones.

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membraneMEMS and NEMSmode mappingphase-locked loopsilicon nitridetracking

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PMID41753870
PMCPMC12943262

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