A nanoscale parametric feedback oscillator

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5054-5059

  Villanueva, L Guillermo ^a   Karabalin, Rassul B ^a   Matheny, Matthew H ^a   Kenig, Eyal ^a   Cross, Michael C ^a   Roukes, Michael L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE DEVICE; NON-LINEARITY; PARAMETRIC FEEDBACK;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); TOPOLOGY;

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 80755125594     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2031162     Document Type: Article

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