Enhancing the Q Factor of Diamagnetically Levitating Resonators by Segmentation

Diamagnetic levitation presents a promising platform for realizing resonant sensors and energy harvesters. The technique offers mechanical isolation from the environment while operating with zero power consumption. This unique feature ensures exceptional sensitivity and accuracy in numerous applications. However, the presence of eddy currents in...

Diamagnetic Composites for High-Q Levitating Resonators

Levitation offers extreme isolation of mechanical systems from their environment, while enabling unconstrained high-precision translation and rotation of objects. Diamagnetic levitation is one of the most attractive levitation schemes because it allows stable levitation at room temperature without the need for a continuous power supply....

Investigation of the nonlinear dynamics of a diamagnetically levitating plate

Over the past decades the diamagnetic effect has been used for a variety of applications. This ranges from levitating a living frog to stabilizing a force sensor, designing an acceleration sensor and determin­ing the power of a laser. Diamagnetic levitation is the only method in which a passive stable levitation of an object can be achieved....

Diamagnetically levitating resonant weighing scale

Diamagnetic levitation offers stable confinement of an object from its environment at zero power, and thus is a promising technique for developing next generation unclamped resonant sensors. In this work, we realize a resonant weighing scale using a graphite plate that is diamagnetically levitating over a checkerboard arrangement of permanent...

Diamagnetically Levitated Resonant Mass Sensor: Master of Science Thesis

In the past few decades, there has been a growing demand for low-cost disposable sensors to be utilized in hazardous and toxic environments such as high temperature and chemically aggressive environments, which can lead to irreversible damage to the sensor. Moreover, by cost reduction, they become more attractive for utilization in developing...