Focused ion beam NanoSQUIDs as novel NEMS resonator readouts

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 693-696

  Hao, Ling ^a   Gallop, John C ^a   Cox, David ^a   Romans, Edward J ^b   Macfarlane, John Cameron ^c   Chen, Jie ^d  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mechanical resonators; NanoSQUIDs; NEMS

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER VIBRATIONS; EXCITATION METHODS; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANOSQUIDS; NOVEL METHODS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; ULTRASENSITIVE; WIDE-RANGING APPLICATIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOCANTILEVERS; RESONATORS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 68749095700     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2019026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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