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Besides the analyte\/adsorbate mass, many other factors, such as position and axial force, can also cause the shifts of resonant frequencies. The in situ measurement of the adsorbate position and axial force is extremely difficult if not impossible, especially when an adsorbate is as small as a molecule or an atom. Extra instruments are also required. In this study, an inverse problem of using three resonant frequencies to determine the mass, position and axial force is formulated and solved. The accuracy of the inverse problem solving method is demonstrated, and how the method can be used in the real application of a nanomechanical resonator is also discussed. Solving the inverse problem is helpful to the development and application of a mechanical resonator sensor for two reasons: reducing extra experimental equipment and achieving better mass sensing by considering more factors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s150714871","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,6,24]],"date-time":"2015-06-24T11:05:12Z","timestamp":1435143912000},"page":"14871-14886","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Mass and Force Sensing of an Adsorbate on a Beam  Resonator Sensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ya-Pu","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,6,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"198","DOI":"10.1038\/nature01511","article-title":"Mass spectrometry-based proteomics","volume":"422","author":"Aebersold","year":"2003","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"212","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1124619","article-title":"Mass spectrometry and protein","volume":"312","author":"Domon","year":"2006","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"602","DOI":"10.1038\/nnano.2012.119","article-title":"Single-protein nanomechanical mass spectrometry in real time","volume":"7","author":"Hanay","year":"2012","journal-title":"Nat. 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