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Narrowband nanomechanical mass measurement using nonlinear response of a graphene membrane

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-10-11 v2

Abstract

We propose a scheme to measure the mass of a single particle using the nonlinear response of a 2D nanoresonator with degenerate eigenmodes. Using numerical and analytical calculations, we show that by driving a square graphene nanoresonator into the nonlinear regime, simultaneous determination of the mass and position of an added particle is possible. Moreover, this scheme only requires measurements in a narrow frequency band near the fundamental resonance.

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@article{arxiv.0911.0953,
  title  = {Narrowband nanomechanical mass measurement using nonlinear response of a graphene membrane},
  author = {J. Atalaya and J. M. Kinaret and A. Isacsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0953},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Considerabluy revised. Published in EPL