Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 2018
DOI: 10.17863/cam.31885
Royal Society of Chemistry, Nanoscale
DOI: 10.1039/c8nr04665d
A self-referenced resonator consisting of two distinct areas of the top electrode made from Mo and a thin (5-30 nm) functional Au layer is shown. The fundamental frequencies for both the shear (~1 GHz) and longitudinal (~2 GHz) are split in two, such that mass attachment on the functional layer region causes frequency shifts in only one of the resonances, allowing a new approach of using the difference between the two frequencies to be used to measure mass attachment; this reduces the importance of device-to-device variability in absolute resonant frequency as a result of device fabrication.