Discrete breathers in ac-driven nanoelectromechanical shuttle arrays

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Wiersig, Jan ^a   Flach, Sergej ^b   Ahn, Kang Hun ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ABRUPT CHANGES; CURRENT RECTIFICATIONS; DISCRETE BREATHERS; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LONG-RANGE INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS; MULTISTABILITY; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SHUTTLES; NANOMECHANICAL SENSORS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATIONS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 57349124496     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3043434     Document Type: Article

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