The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …
Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …
We report strong third-harmonic generation in monolayer graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition and transferred to an amorphous silica (glass) substrate; the photon …
Atomically thin semiconducting crystals [such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)] have outstanding electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, thus making them excellent …
The combination of low mass density, high frequency and high quality factor, Q, of mechanical resonators made of two-dimensional crystals such as graphene,,,,,,, make them …
Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM) resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …
Bolometers are a powerful means of detecting light. Emerging applications demand that bolometers work at room temperature, while maintaining high speed and sensitivity …
The mechanical properties of materials are not only indispensable key factors in their application fields, but are also fundamentally important in terms of materials science. Since …