We present measurements of the dissipation and frequency shift in nanomechanical gold resonators at temperatures down to 10 mK. The resonators were fabricated as doubly-clamped beams above a GaAs substrate and actuated magnetomotively. Measurements on beams with frequencies 7.95 MHz and 3.87 MHz revealed that from 30 mK to 500 mK the dissipation increases with temperature as T0.5, with saturation occurring at higher temperatures. The relative frequency shift of the resonators increases logarithmically with temperature up to at least 400 mK. Similarities with the behavior of bulk amorphous solids suggest that the dissipation in our resonators is dominated by two-level systems.
@article{arxiv.0912.1281,
title = {Dissipation due to tunneling two-level systems in gold nanomechanical resonators},
author = {A. Venkatesan and K. J. Lulla and M. J. Patton and A. D. Armour and C. J. Mellor and J. R. Owers-Bradley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1281},
year = {2015}
}