Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Advisor)

In today’s connected world, our lives depend heavily on information obtained from networks of sensor nodes and mobile devices. Billons of mobile devices are in communication over these networks at any given time. The trillion sensor vision calls for low-power, low-cost and small-sized wireless sensor nodes, posing ever-increasing constraints on the power consumption of wireless networks. Radio Frequency (RF) Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) offer one path towards nano-watt wireless communications. This dissertation presents the first demonstration of an all-mechanical wireless...