Nanomechanical resonators: toward atomic scale

B Xu, P Zhang, J Zhu, Z Liu, A Eichler, XQ Zheng… - Acs Nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Nanoelectromechanical systems from two-dimensional materials

PF Ferrari, SP Kim, AM van der Zande - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and
signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …

Magnetic and electronic phase transitions probed by nanomechanical resonators

M Šiškins, M Lee, S Mañas-Valero, E Coronado… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The reduced dimensionality of two-dimensional (2D) materials results in characteristic types
of magnetically and electronically ordered phases. However, only few methods are available …

Frequency Scaling, Elastic Transition, and Broad-Range Frequency Tuning in WSe2 Nanomechanical Resonators

J Zhu, B Xu, F Xiao, Y Liang, C Jiao, J Li, Q Deng… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanomechanical resonators based on atomic layers of tungsten diselenide (WSe2) offer
intriguing prospects for enabling novel sensing and signal processing functions. The …

Dynamics of 2D material membranes

PG Steeneken, RJ Dolleman, D Davidovikj… - 2D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing
attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics …

Tunable spin polarization and electronic structure of bottom-up synthesized materials

R Islam, B Ghosh, C Autieri, S Chowdhury, A Bansil… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Manipulation of spin-polarized electronic states of two-dimensional (2D) materials under
ambient conditions is necessary for developing new quantum devices with small physical …

Coherent Phonons in van der Waals MoSe2/WSe2 Heterobilayers

C Li, AV Scherbakov, P Soubelet, AK Samusev… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The increasing role of two-dimensional (2D) devices requires the development of new
techniques for ultrafast control of physical properties in 2D van der Waals (vdW) nanolayers …

Extreme mechanical tunability in suspended MoS2 resonator controlled by Joule heating

A Chiout, C Brochard-Richard, L Marty… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2023 - nature.com
Nanomechanical resonators are built into phones, as filters or accelerometers, but they lack
a knob to effectively tune the frequency at the nanoscale when it's easy to tune on an octave …

Ultrasensitive nano-optomechanical force sensor operated at dilution temperatures

F Fogliano, B Besga, A Reigue… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cooling down nanomechanical force probes is a generic strategy to enhance their
sensitivities through the concomitant reduction of their thermal noise and mechanical …