Publications

A complete list is available on my Google scholar page.

Selected Publications

Quantifying submicrometer atmospheric aerosol chemical composition using nanoelectromechanical Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Mihnea Surdu, Radiance Calmer, Jelena Timarac-Popović, Tatjana Penn, Niklas Luhmann, Johannes Hiesberger, Veljko Vukićević, Erine Alvino Démolis, Lionel Favre, Berkay Dönmez, Hajrudin Bešić, Kostas Kanellopulos, Silvan Schmid, Josiane P. Lafleur, Satoshi Takahama, Julia Schmale
Science Advances, 12, eaeb2254 (2026).
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Design optimization of silicon nitride nanomechanical resonators for thermal infrared detectors: A guide through key figures of merit
Paolo Martini, Kostas Kanellopulos, Silvan Schmid, AIP Advances 16, 015020 (2026).
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Uncooled thermal infrared detection near the fundamental limit using a silicon nitride nanomechanical resonator with a broadband absorber
Paolo Martini, Kostas Kanellopulos, Stefan Emminger, Niklas Luhmann, Markus Piller, Robert G. West, Silvan Schmid, Communication Physics 8, 166 (2025).
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Comparative Analysis of Nanomechanical Resonators: Sensitivity, Response Time, and Practical Considerations in Photothermal Sensing
Kostas Kanellopulos, Friedrich Ladinig, Stefan Emminger, Paolo Martini, Robert G. West, Silvan Schmid, Microsystems & Nanoengineering 11, 28 (2025).
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Stress-Dependent Optical Extinction in Low-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition Silicon Nitride Measured by Nanomechanical Photothermal Sensing
Kostas Kanellopulos, Robert G. West, Stefan Emminger, Paolo Martini, Markus Sauer, Annette Foelske, Silvan Schmid, Nano Letters 24, 36 (2024).
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Optimized Signal Estimation in Nanomechanical Photothermal Sensing via Thermal Response Modeling and Kalman Filtering
Hajrudin Bešić, Andreas Deutschmann-Olek, Kenan Mešić, Kostas Kanellopulos, Silvan Schmid, IEEE Sensors Journal 24, 19 (2024).
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Towards photon-noise limited thermal IR detection with optomechanical resonator
Paolo Martini, Kostas Kanellopulos, Silvan Schmid, 2023 IEEE Sensors, pp.1-4, (2023).
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Photothermal Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Nanomechanical Resonators
Robert G. West, Kostas Kanellopulos, Silvan Schmid, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127, 45 (2023).
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Nanomechanical photothermal near infrared spectromicroscopy of individual nanorods
Kostas Kanellopulos, Robert G. West, Silvan Schmid, ACS Photonics 10, 10 (2023).
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Nanomechanical absorption spectroscopy of 2D materials with femtowatt sensitivity
Jan N. Kirchhof, Yuefeng Yu, Denis Yagodkin, Nele Stetzuhn, Daniel B. de Araújo, Kostas Kanellopulos, Samuel Manas-Valero, Eugenio Coronado, Herre van der Zant, Stephanie Reich, Silvan Schmid, Kirill I. Bolotin, 2D Materials 10, 3 (2023).
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PhD Thesis

Nanomechanical Photothermal Sensing

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