Synchronized oscillation in coupled nanomechanical oscillators

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5821, 2007, Pages 95-99

  Shim, Seung Bo ^a,b   Imboden, Matthias ^a   Mohanty, Pritiraj ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; OSCILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNCHRONY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34147139378     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137307     Document Type: Article

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25. This work was supported by NSF under grant number CCF-0432089 and partially under grant number DMR-0449670. We thank N. Kopel, Y. D. Park, J. Wei, and M. Grifoni for their valuable comments.