A tunable carbon nanotube electrochemical oscillator

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 284-287

  Sazonova, Vera ^a   Yalsh, Yuval ^a   Üstünel, Ilande ^a   Roundy, David ^a   Arlas, Tomás A ^a   McEuen, Paul L ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTROCHEMICAL OSCILLATORS; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NEMS); ULTRASENSITIVE MASS DETECTION;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

NANOTUBE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RIGIDITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 4644252328     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02905     Document Type: Article

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