Thermal nonlinearities in a nanomechanical oscillator

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 806-810

  Gieseler, Jan ^a   Novotny, Lukas ^b   Quidant, Romain ^a,c  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

FORCE SENSITIVITY; FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION; MICROMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; NANOMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NON-NEWTONIAN GRAVITY; THERMAL NONLINEARITIES; TRAPPED NANOPARTICLES;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84892608702     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2798     Document Type: Article

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