S. Zare Pakzad*, M. Nasr Esfahani, and B. E. Alaca,
“Mechanical properties of silicon nanowires with native oxide surface state”,
Materials Today Communications, 38, 108321, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.108321 (2024). 
S. Zare Pakzad, S. Akinci, M. Karimzadehkhouei, and B. E. Alaca,
“Simplified Top-Down Fabrication of Sub-Micron Silicon Nanowires”,
Semiconductor Science and Technology, 38, 125005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6641/ad0791(2023).
S. Zare Pakzad, M. Nasr Esfahani, Z. Tasdemir, N. Wollschläger, T. Li, X.F. Li, M. Yilmaz, Y. Leblebici, and B. Erdem Alaca,
“Nanomechanical Modeling of the Bending Response of Silicon Nanowires”,
ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, 15465−15478, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c02077 (2023).
B. Ali, M. Karimzadehkhouei, M. Nasr Esfahani, Y. Leblebici, B. E. Alaca,
“Stencil lithography for bridging MEMS and NEMS”,
Micro Nano Engineering, 19, 100206, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mne.2023.100206 (2023).
M. Karimzadehkhouei, B. Ali, M. Jedari Ghourichaei, and B. E. Alaca,
“Silicon Nanowires Driving Miniaturization of Microelectromechanical Systems Physical Sensors: A Review”,
Advanced Engineering Materials, 2300007, https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300007 (2023).
S. Zare Pakzad, M. Nasr Esfahani, and B. E. Alaca,
“The role of native oxide on the mechanical behavior of silicon nanowires”,
Materials Today Communications, 34,105002, DOI:10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.105002 (2023).
M. Nasr Esfahani, S. Zare Pakzad, T. Li, X.F. Li, Z. Tasdemir, N. Wollschlaeger, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Effect of Native Oxide on Stress in Silicon Nanowires: Implications for Nanoelectromechanical Systems”,
ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, 13276−13285, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c02983 (2022).
N Bavili, B Ali, B Morova, BE Alaca, and A Kiraz,
“Use of an Elastic Buffer Layer for Improved Performance of a Polymer Microcylinder Ring Resonator Hydrogen Sensor”,
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 358, 131431 (2022).
S. Zare Pakzad, M. Nasr Esfahani, Z. Tasdemir, N. Wollschlaeger, X.F. Li, T. Li, M. Yilmaz, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“A New Characterization Approach to Study the Mechanical Behavior of Silicon Nanowires”,
MRS Advances, 6, 500–505 (2021).
D. Aydemir, S. Dogru, B. E. Alaca, and N. N. Ulusu,
“Impact of the surface modifications and cell culture techniques on the biomechanical properties of PDMS in relation to cell growth behavior”,
International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, DOI: 10.1080/00914037.2021.1919670, 1-12 (2021).
Y. Kilinc, M. C. Karakan, Y. Leblebici, M. S. Hanay, and B. E. Alaca,
“Observation of Coupled Mechanical Resonance Modes within Suspended 3D Nanowire Arrays”,
Nanoscale, 12, 22042 – 22048 (2020).
D. Aydemir, N. Salman, M. Karimzadehkhouei, B. E. Alaca, B. Turan, and N. N. Ulusu,
“Evaluation of the Effects of Aging on the Aorta Stiffness in Relation with Mineral and Trace Element Levels: An Optimized Method via Custom-Built Stretcher Device”,
Biological Trace Element Research, 199, 2644–2652 (2020).
M. Bicer, B. G. Kumar, R. Melikov, I. B. Dogru, S. Sadeghi, I. W. Rangelow, B. E. Alaca, and Sedat Nizamoglu,
“Silk as a biodegradable resist for field-emission scanning probe lithography”,
Nanotechnology, 31, 435303 (2020).
S. Giz, M. Berberoglu, S. Bener, S. Aydelik-Ayazoglu, H. Bayraktar, B. E. Alaca, and H. Catalgil-Giz,
“A detailed investigation of the effect of calcium crosslinking and glycerol plasticizing on the physical properties of alginate films”,
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 148, 49-55 (2020).
S. G. Yazgi, T. Ivanov, M. Holz, I. W. Rangelow, and B. E. Alaca,
“Line edge roughness metrology software”,
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 38, 012602 (2020).
S. Dolabella, R. Frison, G. A. Chahine, C. Richter, T. Schulli, Z. Tasdemir, B. E. Alaca, Y. Leblebici, A. Dommann, and A. Neels,
“Real and Q space travelling: multi-dimensional distribution maps of crystal-lattice strain and tilt of suspended monolithic silicon nanowire structures”,
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 53 (2020).
S. Dogru, D. Aydemir, N. Salman, N. N. Ulusu, and B. E. Alaca,
“Impact of PDMS Surface Treatment in Cell-Mechanics Applications”,
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 103, 103538 (2020).
S. Giz, S. Aydelik-Ayazoglu, H. Catalgil-Giz, H. Bayraktar, and B. E. Alaca,
“Stress Relaxation and Humidity Dependence in Sodium Alginate-Glycerol Films”,
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 100, 103374 (2019).
M. Nasr Esfahani, B. E. Alaca, and M. Jabbari,
“Mechanical Properties of Honeycomb Nanoporous Silicon: A High Strength and Ductile Structure”,
Nanotechnology, 30, 455702 (2019).
M. Nasr Esfahani and B. E. Alaca,
“A Review on Size-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Nanowires”,
Advanced Engineering Materials, 21, 1900192 (2019).
M. Nasr Esfahani and B. E. Alaca,
“Surface Stress Effect on Silicon Nanowire Mechanical Behavior: Size and Orientation Dependence”,
Mechanics of Materials, 127, 112-123 (2018).
M. Bicer, M. N. Esfahani, A. D. Yalcinkaya, and B. E. Alaca,
“A deformation based approach to tuning of magnetic micromechanical resonators”,
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 28, 105003 (2018).
S. Dogru, B. Aksoy, H. Bayraktar, and B. E. Alaca,
“Poisson’s ratio of PDMS thin films”,
Polymer Testing, 69, 375-384 (2018).
Z. Tasdemir, O. Peric, D. Sacchetto, G. Fantner, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Monolithic fabrication of silicon nanowires bridging thick silicon structures”,
Republished in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 17(6), 1299-1302 (2018).
S. K. Baloch, A. Jonas, A. Kiraz, B. E. Alaca, and C. Erkey,
“Sensitivity of compositional measurement of high-pressure fluid mixtures using microcantilever frequency response”,
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 278, 111-126 (2018).
M. Nasr Esfahani, Y. Kilinc, M. C. Karakan, E. Orhan, S. Hanay, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Piezoresistive silicon nanowire resonators as embedded building blocks in thick SOI”,
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 28, 045006 (2018).
S. K. Baloch, A. Jonas, A. Kiraz, B. E. Alaca, and C. Erkey,
“Determination of composition of ethanol-CO2 mixtures at high pressures using frequency response of microcantilevers”,
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 132, 65-70 (2018).
M. Nasr Esfahani, M. Yilmaz, N. Wollschläger, I. W. Rangelow, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Monolithic technology for silicon nanowires in high-topography architectures”,
Microelectronic Engineering, 183-184, 42-47 (2017).
G. Eris, S. K. Baloch, A. Asikoglu Bozkurt, A. Jonas, A. Kiraz, B. E. Alaca, and C. Erkey,
“Characterization of fluid mixtures at high pressures using frequency response of microcantilevers”,
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 261, 202-209 (2017).
M. Nasr Esfahani, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“A Monolithic Approach to Downscaling Silicon Piezoresistive Sensors”,
IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 26(3), 624-631 (2017).
M. Yilmaz, Y. Kilinc, G. Nadar, Z. Tasdemir, N. Wollschläger, W. Österle, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Top-down technique for scaling to nano in silicon MEMS”,
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 35(2), 022001 (2017).
B. Aksoy, A. Rehman, H. Bayraktar, and B. E. Alaca,
“High-resolution Spatiotemporal Strain Mapping Reveals Non-uniform Deformation in Micropatterned Elastomers”,
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 27, 045008 (2017).
M. Yilmaz, N. Wollschlaeger, M. Nasr Esfahani, W. Oesterle, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Superplastic behavior of silica nanowires obtained by direct patterning of silsesquioxane-based precursors”,
Nanotechnology, 28, 115302 (2017).
M. Eryurek, Z. Tasdemir, Y. Karadag, S. Anand, N. Kilinc, B. E. Alaca, and A. Kiraz,
“Integrated humidity sensor based on SU-8 polymer microdisk microresonator”,
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 242, 1115-1120 (2017).
M. Nasr Esfahani, M. Yilmaz, M. R. Sonne, J. H. Hattel, and B. E. Alaca,
“Selecting the optimum engineering model for the frequency response of fcc nanowire resonators”,
Applied Mathematical Modelling, 44, 236-245 (2017).
N. Wollschlaeger, Z. Tasdemir, I. Haeusler, Y. Leblebici, W. Oesterle, and B. E. Alaca,
“Determination of the elastic behavior of silicon nanowires within a scanning electron microscope”,
Journal of Nanomaterials, 2016, 4905838 (2016).
O. Aydn, B. Aksoy, O. B. Akalin, H. Bayraktar, and B. E. Alaca,
“Time-resolved local strain tracking microscopy for cell mechanics”,
Review of Scientific Instruments, 87, 023905 (2016).
O. Onal, B. Gumus, B. Aksoy, G. Gerstein, B. E. Alaca, H. J. Maier, and D. Canadinc,
“Micro-scale cyclic bending response of NiTi shape memory alloy”,
Materials Transactions, 57(3), 472-475 (2016).
Z. Tasdemir, N. Wollschlaeger, W. Oesterle, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“A deep etching mechanism for trench-bridging silicon nanowires”,
Nanotechnology, 27, 095303 (2016).
M. Nasr Esfahani, M. R. Sonne, J. H. Hattel, and B. E. Alaca,
“Thermo-coupled Surface Cauchy-Born theory: An engineering finite element approach to modeling of nanowire thermomechanical response”,
Mechanics of Materials, 94, 46-52 (2016).
Z. Tasdemir, O. Peric, D. Sacchetto, G. Fantner, Y. Leblebici and B. E. Alaca,
“Monolithic fabrication of silicon nanowires bridging thick silicon structures”,
IEEE Nanotechnology Express, 1, 2-5 (2015).
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G. Eris, A. Asikoglu Bozkurt, A. Sunol, A. Jon , A. Kiraz, B. E. Alaca, and C. Erkey,
“Determination of viscosity and density of fluids usingfrequency response of microcantilevers”,
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 105, 179-185 (2015).
M. Yilmaz, M. N. Esfahani, M. Bicer and B. E. Alaca,
“A numerical simulation for the stress effect in flexural micro/nano electromechanical resonators”,
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 12(11), 4399-4407 (2015).
Y. Kilinc, U. Unal and B. E. Alaca,
“Residual stress gradients in electroplated nickel thin films”,
Microelectronic Engineering, 134, 60-67 (2015).
O. Cakmak, C. Elbuken, E. Ermek, A. Mostafazadeh, I. Baris, B. E. Alaca, I. H. Kavakli, H. Urey,
“Microcantilever based disposable viscosity sensor for serum and blood plasma measurements”,
Methods, 63(3), 225-232 (2013).
E. Uzunlar, B. Beykal, K. Ehrlich, D. Sanli, A. Jon, B. E. Alaca, A. Kiraz, H. Urey, and C. Erkey,
“Frequency response of microcantilevers immersed in gaseous, liquid, and supercritical carbon dioxide”,
Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 81, 254-264 (2013).
E. F. Arkan, D. Sacchetto, I. Yildiz, Y. Leblebici, and B. E. Alaca,
“Monolithic integration of Si nanowires with metallic electrodes: NEMS resonator and switch applications”,
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 21, 125018 (2011).
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E. Timurdogan, B. E. Alaca, I. H. Kavakli, and H. Urey,
“MEMS biosensor for detection of Hepatitis A and C viruses in serum”,
Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 28(1), 189-194 (2011).
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E. Timurdogan, N. Ozber, S. Nargul, S. Yavuz, M. S. Kilic, I. H. Kavakli, H. Urey, and B. E. Alaca,
“Detection of human -opioid antibody using microresonators with integrated optical readout”,
Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 26(1), 195-201 (2010).
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B. E. Alaca, C. Ozcan, and G. Anlas,
“Deterministic assembly of channeling cracks as a tool for nanofabrication”,
Nanotechnology, 21, 055301 (2010).
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O. Ozsun, B. E. Alaca, Y. Leblebici, A. D. Yalcinkaya, I. Yildiz, M. Yilmaz, and M. Zervas,
“Monolithic integration of silicon nanowires with a microgripper”,
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 18(6), 1335-1344 (2009).
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B. E. Alaca,
“Integration of one-dimensional nanostructures with microsystems: an overview”,
International Materials Reviews, 54(5), 245-282 (2009).
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S. C. Yorulmaz, M. Mestre, M. Muradoglu, B. E. Alaca, and A. Kiraz,
“Controlled observation of nondegenerate cavity modes in a microdroplet on a superhydrophobic surface”,
Optics Communications, 282, 3024-3027 (2009).
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O. Ozsun, B. E. Alaca, A. D. Yalcinkaya, M. Yilmaz, M. Zervas, and Y. Leblebici,
“On heat transfer at microscale with implications for microactuator design”,
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 19(4), 045020 (2009).
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B. E. Alaca, K. B. Toga, O. Akar, and T. Akin,
“Strain-controlled bulge test”,
Journal of Materials Research 23(12), 3295-3302 (2008).
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A. Ozturk, H. I. Ocakli, N. Ozber, H. Urey, H. I. Kavakli, and B. E. Alaca,
“A magnetically actuated resonant mass sensor with integrated optical readout”,
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 20(23), 1905-1907 (2008).
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I. Lazoglu, D. Ulutan, B. E. Alaca, and S. Engin,
“An enhanced analytical model for residual stress prediction in machining”,
CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology 57(1), 81-84 (2008).
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O. Sardan, B. E. Alaca, A. D. Yalcinkaya, P. Bggild, P. T. Tang, and O. Hansen,
“Microgrippers: a case study for batch-compatible integration of MEMS with nanostructures”,
Nanotechnology 18, 375501 (2007).
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D. Ulutan, B. E. Alaca, and I. Lazoglu,
“Analytical modelling of residual stresses in machining”,
Journal of Materials Processing Technology 183(1), 77-87 (2007).
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K. B. Toga and B. E. Alaca,
“Junction formation during desiccation cracking”,
Physical Review E 74, 021405 (2006).
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O. Sardan, A. D. Yalcinkaya and B. E. Alaca,
“Self-assembly-based batch fabrication of nickel-iron nanowires by electroplating”,
Nanotechnology 17(9), 2227-2233 (2006).
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B. E. Alaca, H. Sehitoglu, and T. Saif,
“Guided self-assembly of metallic nanowires and channels”,
Applied Physics Letters 84(23), 4669-4671 (2004).
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B. E. Alaca, J. C. Selby, M. T. A. Saif, and H. Sehitoglu,
“Biaxial testing of nano-scale films on compliant substrates – fatigue and fracture”,
Review of Scientific Instruments 73(8), 2963-2970 (2002).
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B. E. Alaca, M. T. A. Saif, and H. Sehitoglu,
“On the interface debond at the edge of a thin film on a thick substrate”,
Acta Materialia 50(5), 1197-1209 (2002).
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M. T. A. Saif, B. E. Alaca, and H. Sehitoglu,
“Analytical modeling of electrostatic membrane actuator for micro pumps”,
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 8(3), 335-345 (1999).
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