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Frequency fluctuations in nanomechanical silicon nitride string resonators
Pedram Sadeghi, Alper Demir, Luis Guillermo Villanueva +2
High quality factor () nanomechanical resonators have received a lot of attention for sensor applications with unprecedented sensitivity. Despite the large interest, few investi…
On the effect of linear feedback and parametric pumping on a resonators frequency stability
Zohreh Mohammadi, Toni L. Heugel, James M. L. Miller +6
Resonant sensors based on Micro- and Nano-Electro Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS) are ubiquitous in many sensing applications due to their outstanding performance capabilities, which a…
Manufacture and Characterization of Graphene Membranes with Suspended Silicon Proof Masses for MEMS and NEMS Applications
Xuge Fan, Anderson D. Smith, Fredrik Forsberg +8
Unparalleled strength, chemical stability, ultimate surface-to-volume ratio and excellent electronic properties of graphene make it an ideal candidate as a material for membranes i…
Shape Memory Polymer Resonators as Highly Sensitive Uncooled Infrared Detectors
Ulas Adiyan, Tom Larsen, Juan Jose Zarate +2
Uncooled InfraRed (IR) detectors have enabled the rapid growth of thermal imaging applications. These detectors are predominantly bolometers, where the heating of pixel from incomi…
Effect of AlN Seed Layer on Crystallographic Characterization of Piezoelectric AlN
Kaitlin M. Howell, Waqas Bashir, Annalisa de Pastina +3
Ultrathin aluminum nitride (AlN) films are of great interest for integration into nanoelectromechanical systems for actuation and sensing. Given the direct relationship between cry…
Observation of a phononic quadrupole topological insulator
Marc Serra-Garcia, Valerio Peri, Roman Süsstrunk +4
The modern theory of charge polarization in solids is based on a generalization of Berry's phase. Its possible quantization lies at the heart of our understanding of all systems wi…
Position and Mode Dependent Optical Detection Back-Action in Cantilever Beam Resonators
T. Larsen. S. Schmid, S. Dohn, J. E. Sader +2
Optical detection back-action in cantilever resonant or static detection presents a challenge when striving for state-of-the-art performance. The origin and possible routes for min…
Size Effects on Mechanical Properties of Micro/Nano Structures
Amir Musa Abazari, Seyed Mohsen Safavi, Ghader Rezazadeh +1
Experiments on Micro- and Nano-mechanical systems (M/NEMS) have shown that their behavior upon bending loads departs in many cases from the classical predictions using Euler-Bernou…
Frequency fluctuations in silicon nanoresonators
Marc Sansa, Eric Sage, Elizabeth C. Bullard +9
Frequency stability is key to performance of nanoresonators. This stability is thought to reach a limit with the resonator's ability to resolve thermally-induced vibrations. Althou…
Evidence of surface loss as ubiquitous limiting damping mechanism in SiN micro- and nanomechanical resonators
Luis Guillermo Villanueva, Silvan Schmid
Silicon nitride (SiN) micro- and nanomechanical resonators have attracted a lot of attention in various research fields due to their exceptionally high quality factors (s). Desp…
Demonstration of suppressed phonon tunneling losses in phononic bandgap shielded membrane resonators for high-Q optomechanics
Yeghishe Tsaturyan, Andreas Barg, Anders Simonsen +4
Dielectric membranes with exceptional mechanical and optical properties present one of the most promising platforms in quantum opto-mechanics. The performance of stressed silicon n…
Graphene on silicon nitride for optoelectromechanical micromembrane resonators
Silvan Schmid, Tolga Bagci, Emil Zeuthen +12
Due to their exceptional mechanical and optical properties, dielectric silicon nitride (SiN) micromembrane resonators have become the centerpiece of many optomechanical experiments…
A Passive Phase Noise Cancellation Element
Eyal Kenig, M. C. Cross, Ron Lifshitz +4
We introduce a new method for reducing phase noise in oscillators, thereby improving their frequency precision. The noise reduction device consists of a pair of coupled nonlinear r…