Sustained mechanical self-oscillations in carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1728-1733

  Weldon, Jeffrey A ^a   Alemán, Benjamin ^a   Sussman, Allen ^a   Gannett, William ^a   Zettl, Alex K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Field emission; NEMS; Oscillators; Self oscillation

Indexed keywords

DC VOLTAGE; DEVICE GEOMETRIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH POWER ELECTRONICS; LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NEMS DEVICES; OSCILLATORS; SELF-OSCILLATING; SELF-OSCILLATIONS; TOPDOWN;

FIELD EMISSION; NEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OSCILLOMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VIBRATION;

EID: 77952342267     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl100148q     Document Type: Article

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