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Self Excitation of Nano-Mechanical Pillars

chenwenkuipc 添加于 2012-2-8 15:41 | 1178 次阅读 | 0 个评论

作者
Kim HS, Qin H, Blick RH
摘要
Self excitation is a mechanism which is ubiquitous for electromechanical power devices such as electrical generators. This is conventionally achieved by making use of the magnetic field component in electrical generators [1], where a good example are the overall visible wind farm turbines [2]. In other words, a static force, like wind acting on the rotor blades, can generate a resonant excitation at a certain mechanical frequency. For nanomechanical systems [3,4,5] such a self excitation (SE) mechanism is highly desirable as well, since it can generate mechanical oscillations at radio frequencies by simply applying a DC bias voltage. This is of great importance for low-power signal communication devices and detectors, as well as for mechanical computing elements. For a particular nanomechanical system - the single electron shuttle - this effect was predicted some time ago by Gorelik et al. [6]. Here, we use a nano-electromechanical single electron transistor (NEMSET) to demonstrate self excitation for both the soft and hard regime, respectively. The ability to use self excitation in nanomechanical systems may enable the detection of quantum mechanical backaction effects [7] in direct tunneling, macroscopic quantum tunneling [8], and rectification [9]. All these effects have so far been over shadowed by the large driving voltages, which had to be applied.
详细资料
- 期卷页: 2007年
- 日期: 2007
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