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NANO LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages 2547-2552Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl900612h
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- Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- NanoNed
- Japan Science and Technology Agency International Cooperative Research Project (JST-ICORP)
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We have observed the transversal vibration mode of suspended carbon nanotubes at millikelvin temperatures by measuring the single-electron tunneling current. The suspended nanotubes are actuated contact-free by the radio frequency electric field of a nearby antenna; the mechanical resonance is detected in the time-averaged current through the nanotube. Sharp, gate-tunable resonances due to the bending mode of the nanotube are observed, combining resonance frequencies of up to nu(0) = 350 MHz with quality factors above Q = 10(5), much higher than previously reported results on suspended carbon nanotube resonators. The measured magnitude and temperature dependence of the Q factor shows a remarkable agreement with the intrinsic damping predicted for a suspended carbon nanotube. By adjusting the radio frequency power on the antenna, we find that the nanotube resonator can easily be driven into the nonlinear regime.
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