Sliding nanomechanical resonators

The motion of a vibrating object is set by the way it is held. Here, the authors show a nanomechanical resonator reversibly slides on its supporting substrate as it vibrates and exploit this unconventional dynamics to quantify friction at the nanoscale.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yue Ying, Zhuo-Zhi Zhang, Joel Moser, Zi-Jia Su, Xiang-Xiang Song, Guo-Ping Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34144-5