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Overview

Bojan Ilic is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. Their research spans several fields including engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy. With a focus on subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and polymers and plastics, their work covers a broad range of scientific domains.

Their research topics include:

  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices

Bojan Ilic has published in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, and IEEE Sensors Journal.

Recent papers include:

  • Charge disproportionate molecular redox for discrete memristive and memcapacitive switching, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • High Throughput Nanoimaging of Thermal Conductivity and Interfacial Thermal Conductance, 2022, Nano Letters
  • Frequency Stabilization of Nanomechanical Resonators Using Thermally Invariant Strain Engineering, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Single Electrode Bidirectional Switching of Latchable Prestressed Bistable Micromechanical Beams, 2021, IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Comparable Enhancement of TERS Signals from WSe2 on Chromium and Gold, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bojan Ilic include:

  • Santi Prasad Rath
  • Damien Thompson
  • Svante Hedström
  • Meenakshi Annamalai
  • Rajib Pramanick

Best Publications

  • Attogram detection using nanoelectromechanical oscillators

    B. Ilic;Harold G. Craighead;S. Krylov;W. Senaratne

  • Label-free biomarker detection from whole blood.

    Eric Stern;Aleksandar Vacic;Nitin K. Rajan;Jason M. Criscione

  • Mechanical resonant immunospecific biological detector

    B. Ilic;D. Czaplewski;Harold G. Craighead;P. Neuzil

  • Single cell detection with micromechanical oscillators

    B. Ilic;D. Czaplewski;M. Zalalutdinov;Harold G. Craighead

  • Virus detection using nanoelectromechanical devices

    B. Ilic;Y. Yang;Harold G. Craighead

  • Observation of Locked Intrinsic Localized Vibrational Modes in a Micromechanical Oscillator Array

    Masayuki Sato;B.E. Hubbard;A.J. Sievers;B. Ilic

  • The pull-in behavior of electrostatically actuated bistable microstructures

    Slava Krylov;Bojan R. Ilic;David Schreiber;Shimon Seretensky

  • Enumeration of DNA molecules bound to a nanomechanical oscillator.

    B. Ilic;Y. Yang;K. Aubin;R. Reichenbach

  • High, size-dependent quality factor in an array of graphene mechanical resonators.

    Robert A. Barton;B. Ilic;Arend M. van der Zande;William S. Whitney

  • Experimental Observation of Strong Photon Localization in Disordered Photonic Crystal Waveguides

    J. Topolancik;B. Ilic;F. Vollmer

  • Photothermal Self-Oscillation and Laser Cooling of Graphene Optomechanical Systems

    Robert A. Barton;Isaac R. Storch;Vivekananda P. Adiga;Reyu Sakakibara

  • An electrospray ionization source for integration with microfluidics.

    Jun Kameoka;Reid Orth;Bojan Ilic;David Czaplewski

  • On-Chip Manipulation of Protein-Coated Magnetic Beads via Domain-Wall Conduits

    Marco Donolato;Paolo Vavassori;Marco Gobbi;Maria Deryabina

  • Bistability of curved microbeams actuated by fringing electrostatic fields

    Slava Krylov;Bojan R. Ilic;Stella Lulinsky

  • Topographical patterning of chemically sensitive biological materials using a polymer-based dry lift off

    B. Ilic;Harold G. Craighead

  • Optical excitation of nanoelectromechanical oscillators

    B. Ilic;S. Krylov;K. Aubin;R. Reichenbach

  • Optically pumped parametric amplification for micromechanical oscillators

    M. Zalalutdinov;A. Olkhovets;A. Zehnder;B. Ilic

  • Interstitial flux phases in a superconducting niobium film with a square lattice of artificial pinning centers

    V. Metlushko;U. Welp;G. W. Crabtree;R. Osgood

  • Autoparametric optical drive for micromechanical oscillators

    M. Zalalutdinov;A. Zehnder;A. Olkhovets;S. Turner

  • Study of intrinsic localized vibrational modes in micromechanical oscillator arrays.

    Masayuki Sato;B.E. Hubbard;L.Q. English;A.J. Sievers

  • Label-free biomarker detection from whole blood

    Eric Stern;Aleksandar Vacic;Nitin K. Rajan;Jason M. Criscione

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold G. Craighead
Harold G. Craighead Cornell University
David A. Czaplewski
David A. Czaplewski Argonne National Laboratory
Peter Grutter
Peter Grutter McGill University
Alan T. Zehnder
Alan T. Zehnder Cornell University
Ulrich Welp
Ulrich Welp Argonne National Laboratory
Brian H. Houston
Brian H. Houston United States Naval Research Laboratory
John W. Freeland
John W. Freeland Argonne National Laboratory
Paul L. McEuen
Paul L. McEuen Cornell University

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