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

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

Revealing the microscopic structural and dynamic pictures of glasses is a long-standing
challenge for scientists,. Extensive studies on the structure and relaxation dynamics of …

Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it
has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the …

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 …