Mechanical resonators are widely used in sensors, transducers and optomechanical
systems, where mechanical dissipation sets the ultimate limit to performance. Over the past …

For decades, mechanical resonators with high sensitivity have been realized using thin‐film
materials under high tensile loads. Although there are remarkable strides in achieving low …

At room temperature, mechanical motion driven by the quantum backaction of light has been
observed only in pioneering experiments in which an optical restoring force controls the …

Nanomechanical resonators realized from tensile-strained materials reach ultralow
mechanical dissipation in the kHz to MHz frequency range. Tensile-strained crystalline …

Optomechanical systems using a membrane-in-the-middle configuration can exhibit a long-
range type of interaction similar to how atoms show collective motion in an optical potential …

Micromechanical resonator performance is fundamentally limited by the coupling to a
thermal environment. The magnitude of this thermodynamical effect is typically considered in …

The quality factor of resonator is described by a dilution factor defined as the ratio of tension
to linear strain energies. We implement topology optimization of resonators with the dilution …

Nanomechanical resonators with exceptionally low dissipation are advancing mechanics-
based sensors and quantum technologies. The key for these advances is the engineering of …

The motional sideband asymmetry of a mechanical oscillator interacting with a laser field
can be observed when approaching the quantum ground state, where the zero-point energy …

Micro-electro-mechanical resonators employing a magnetic element have been proposed
for magnetic field sensing applications, but the integration of magnetic materials with …