3 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2025
Nanoscale Mechanical Structures Fabricated from Silicon-on-Insulator Substrates
Andrew N. Cleland, Michael L. Roukes
We describe a method with which to fabricate sub-micron mechanical structures from silicon-on-insulator substrates. We believe this is the first reported method for such fabricatio…
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Intrinsic Phononic Dressed States in a Nanomechanical System
M. Yuksel, M. P. Maksymowych, O. A. Hitchcock +5
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) provide a platform for probing the quantum nature of mechanical motion in mesoscopic systems. This nature manifests most profoundly when the de…
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Frequency Fluctuations in Nanomechanical Resonators due to Quantum Defects
M. P. Maksymowych, M. Yuksel, O. A. Hitchcock +5
Nanomechanical resonators promise diverse applications ranging from mass spectrometry to quantum information processing, requiring long phonon lifetimes and frequency stability. Al…