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  1. ; ; ; (, Journal of Applied Physics)
    Polyvinylidene difluoride trifluoroethylene (PVDF-TrFE) has received widespread application in flexible electronics and biomedical devices but is limited in its sensing modalities to piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity. The addition of optically or magnetically active nanoparticles could provide additional sensing modalities in the same element, which could drive miniaturization of such sensors. Europium barium titanate (EBTO) is one such optically active nanoparticle that could add functionality to such a nanocomposite. In this work, multifunctional nanocomposites of PVDF-TrFE and EBTO are successfully synthesized and characterized for their material and electronic properties. The nanocomposite in this work is the first known multifunctional nanocomposite with PVDF-TrFE and a fluorescent nanoparticle. 
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    Microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) offer a new way of measuring temperature and infrared (IR) radiation, through measurements of total optical energy, overcoming the obstacles associated with narrow bandgap semiconductor detectors[1]. Specifically, Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBAR) offers a versatile MEMS technology based on resonant devices fabricated using piezoelectric materials [2]. With the addition of an absorbing susceptor and the use of zinc oxide (ZnO) as the piezoelectric it is possible to obtain a higher sensitivity device than previously demonstrated systems, taking advantage of ZnO's higher temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) [3,4,5]. This work studies the improved sensing ability of an FBAR structure and ease of testing and superior parasitic performance provided in a package using an engineered high TCF FBAR in a monolithically integrated CMOS process. 
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