Patent ID: 8350578

Claim:
A system for wiring a voltage sensitive device to a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) resonator comprising: (a) a voltage sensitive device configured to detect one or more voltage signals and output one or more electrical potentials in real-time; (b) an array of piezoelectric NEMS resonators, wherein: (i) each piezoelectric NEMS resonator in the array is tuned to a unique frequency; (ii) the array of NEMS resonators is connected to the voltage sensitive device and is configured to perform the following steps in real-time: (1) receive the one or more output electrical potentials from the voltage sensitive device; (2) convert, using one or more of the tuned NEMS resonators, each output electrical potential to a corresponding resonance frequency varying signal, wherein an output signal from each NEMS resonator varies in linear proportion to the resonator's corresponding frequency variation arising from the output electrical potential applied to the NEMS resonator; (iii) the frequency varying signals are multiplexed together into a single readout signal path; (c) a monitoring system connected to the readout signal path and configured to continuously monitor the multiplexed frequency varying signals in the common readout path to determine variations in vibrational amplitude of the frequency varying signals; and (d) a demodulation device connected to the readout signal path and configured to deconvolve the multiplexed frequency varying signals in the common readout path to recover and uniquely identify the output electrical potential.