Evidence for quantized displacement in macroscopic nanomechanical oscillators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Gaidarzhy, Alexei ^a,b   Zolfagharkhani, Guiti ^a   Badzey, Robert L ^a   Mohanty, Pritiraj ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS DENSITY; NANOMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; SILICON-GOLD INTERFACE; TIME DOMAIN SWEEPS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHONONS; SILICON; SQUIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 18044387189     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.030402     Document Type: Article

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