[1] N. Kuo, C. Zuo, G. Piazza, “"Microscale inverse acoustic band gap structure in aluminum nitride," Applied Physics Letters, Vol.95, Issue 9, 2009. (PDF)

[2] N. Sinha, G. E. Wabiszewski, R. Mahameed, V. Felmetsger, S. Tanner, R. W. Carpick, and G. Piazza, “Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride NanoElectroMechanical Actuators”, Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 95, Issue 5, 2009. (PDF)

[3] C. Zuniga, M. Rinaldi, Khamis, T.S. Jones, A.T. Johnson, G. Piazza, “Nano-Enabled MicroElectroMechanical Sensor for Volatile Organic Chemical Detection”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, 223122, June 5, 2009. (PDF)

[4] G. Piazza, “Integrated Aluminum Nitride Piezoelectric MEMS for Radio Front-Ends”, accepted for publication in Journal of Vacuum Society A, 2008 (Invited).

[5] R. Mahameed, N. Sinha, M.B. Pisani and G. Piazza, “Dual-beam actuation of piezoelectric AlN RF MEMS switches monolithically integrated with AlN contour-mode resonators,”  J. Micromech. Microeng. 18 105011 (11pp), 2008.

[6] G. Piazza, P.J. Stephanou, A.P. Pisano, “One and two port piezoelectric higher order contour-mode MEMS resonators for mechanical signal processing”, Solid-State Electronics, vol. 51, pp. 1596–1608, 2007. (PDF)

[7] G. Piazza and A.P. Pisano, “Two-port stacked piezoelectric aluminum nitride contour-mode resonant MEMS”, Sensors and Actuators A-Physical, vol. A 136, pp. 638–645,  2007. (PDF)

[8] G. Piazza, P.J. Stephanou, A.P. Pisano, “Single-Chip Multiple-Frequency AlN MEMS Filters Based on Contour-Mode Piezoelectric Resonators”, Journal of MicroElectroMechanical Systems, vol. 16, no.2, pp. 319-328, April 2007. (PDF)

[9] P. J. Stephanou , G. Piazza, C. D. White, M. B.J. Wijesundara, A. P. Pisano, “Piezoelectric aluminum nitride MEMS annular dual contour mode filter”, Sensors and Actuators A-Physical, vol. A134, 2007. (PDF)

[10] White, C. D.; Piazza, G.; Stephanou, P. J.; Pisano, A. P., “Design of nano-gap piezoelectric resonators for mechanical RF magnetic field modulation”, Sensors and Actuators A-Physical, vol. 134 (1), pp. 239-244, Feb. 2007. (PDF)

[11] G. Piazza, P.J. Stephanou, A.P. Pisano, “Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Vibrating Contour-Mode MEMS Resonators”, Journal of MicroElectroMechanical Systems, vol. 15, no.6, pp. 1406-1418, December 2006. (PDF)

[12] G. Piazza, K. Castelino, A. P. Pisano, and C. J. Chang-Hasnain, "Design of a monolithic piezoelectrically actuated microelectromechanical tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser," Optics Letters, vol. 30, pp. 896-8, 2005. (PDF)

[13] G. Piazza, R. Abdolvand, G. K. Ho, and F. Ayazi, "Voltage-tunable piezoelectrically-transduced single-crystal silicon micromechanical resonators," Sensors & Actuators A-Physical, vol. A111, pp. 71-8, 2004. (PDF)

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