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 …

Understanding the mechanical behaviour of nanostructures is of great importance due to
their applications in nanodevices such as in nanomechanical resonators, nanoscale mass …

In atomic force microscopy a cantilever with a sharp tip attached to it is scanned over the
surface of a sample, and information about the surface is extracted by measuring how the …

The theory of damping is discussed in Newton's Principia and has been tested in objects as
diverse as the Foucault pendulum, the mirrors in gravitational-wave detectors and …

Mechanical systems are ideal candidates for studying quantum behavior of macroscopic
objects. To this end, a mechanical resonator has to be cooled to its ground state and its …

This article is a review of the dissipation processes in nanoelectromechanical systems
(NEMS). As NEMS technology becomes more and more prevalent in research and …

Ultraminiaturized mass spectrometers are highly sought-after tools, with numerous
applications in areas such as environmental protection, exploration, and drug development …

Shrinking mechanical resonators to submicrometer dimensions (∼ 100 nm) has
tremendously improved capabilities in sensing applications. In this Letter, we go further in …

Nanoelectromechanical resonators have potential applications in sensing, cooling, and
mechanical signal processing. An important parameter in these systems is the strength of …