A tunable carbon nanotube electromechanical oscillator

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dc.creatorSazonova, Vera
dc.creatorYaish, Yuval
dc.creatorUstunel, Hande
dc.creatorRoundy, David
dc.creatorArias, Tomas A.
dc.creatorMcEuen, Paul L.
dc.date2004-09-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:00:50Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:00:50Z
dc.descriptionNanoelectromechanical systems (NEMs) hold promise for a number of scientific and technological applications. In particular, NEMs oscillators have been proposed for use in ultrasensitive mass detection, radio-frequency signal processing, and as a model system for exploring quantum phenomena in macroscopic systems. Perhaps the ultimate material for these applications is a carbon nanotube. They are the stiffest material known, have low density, ultrasmall cross-sections and can be defect-free. Equally important, a nanotube can act as a transistor and thus may be able to sense its own motion. In spite of this great promise, a room-temperature, self-detecting nanotube oscillator has not been realized, although some progress has been made. Here we report the electrical actuation and detection of the guitar-string-like oscillation modes of doubly clamped nanotube oscillators. We show that the resonance frequency can be widely tuned and that the devices can be used to transduce very small forces.
dc.description9 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409407
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409407
dc.identifierNature 431, 284-287, 2004
dc.identifierdoi:10.1038/nature02905
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/24876
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.titleA tunable carbon nanotube electromechanical oscillator
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