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 …

Nanomechanical resonators have been used to weigh cells, biomolecules and gas
molecules,,,, and to study basic phenomena in surface science, such as phase transitions …

Back in December 1959, future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gave a visionary and now
oft-quoted talk entitled “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” The occasion was an …

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) resonators can detect mass with exceptional
sensitivity. Previously, mass spectra from several hundred adsorption events were …

Frequency stability is key to the performance of nanoresonators. This stability is thought to
reach a limit with the resonator's ability to resolve thermally induced vibrations. Although …

This review provides an overview of recent advances that have been achieved in
understanding the basic physics of friction and energy dissipation in molecularly thin …

In its most basic form an oscillator consists of a resonator driven on resonance, through
feedback, to create a periodic signal sustained by a static energy source. The generation of …

A microcantilever is a suspended micro-scale beam structure supported at one end which
can bend and/or vibrate when subjected to a load. Microcantilevers are one of the most …

Optical measurements of a nanoscale silicon optomechanical crystal cavity with a
mechanical resonance frequency of 3.6 GHz are performed at subkelvin temperatures. We …