Carbon nanotubes as ultrahigh quality factor mechanical resonators

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2547-2552

  Hüttel, Andreas K ^a,b   Steele, Gary A ^a   Witkamp, Benoit ^a   Poot, Menno ^a   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING MODES; INTRINSIC DAMPING; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; MILLIKELVIN TEMPERATURES; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; Q-FACTOR; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIO FREQUENCY ELECTRIC FIELD; RADIO FREQUENCY POWER; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SINGLE ELECTRON TUNNELING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME-AVERAGED; TRANSVERSAL VIBRATION;

ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; RESONANCE; RESONATORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; VIBRATION;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; VIBRATION;

EID: 67650389150     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl900612h     Document Type: Article

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