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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33440-4
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- ISF [1854/19]
- Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute
- Council for Higher Education
- Russel Berrie scholarships
This article reports on the nonlinear behavior of carbon nanotube mechanical resonators, which enables high frequency tunability and snap-through bi-stability. The findings have implications for various applications including sensors, memory elements, and mechanical parametric amplification.
Computing, memories, and digital electronics are based on the operation principle of bi-stable systems. Here, Yaish et al. report the unusual non-linear behaviour of buckled up carbon nanotubes mechanical resonators, which allows high electrical frequency tunability and snap-through bi-stability. Bi-stable mechanical resonators play a significant role in various applications, such as sensors, memory elements, quantum computing and mechanical parametric amplification. While carbon nanotube based resonators have been widely investigated as promising NEMS devices, a bi-stable carbon nanotube resonator has never been demonstrated. Here, we report a class of carbon nanotube resonators in which the nanotube is buckled upward. We show that a small upward buckling yields record electrical frequency tunability, whereas larger buckling can achieve Euler-Bernoulli bi-stability, the smallest mechanical resonator with two stable configurations to date. We believe that these recently-discovered carbon nanotube devices will open new avenues for realizing nano-sensors, mechanical memory elements and mechanical parametric amplifiers. Furthermore, we present a three-dimensional theoretical analysis revealing significant nonlinear coupling between the in-plane and out-of-plane static and dynamic modes of motion, and a unique three-dimensional Euler-Bernoulli snap-through transition. We utilize this coupling to provide a conclusive explanation for the low quality factor in carbon nanotube resonators at room temperature, key in understanding dissipation mechanisms at the nano scale.
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