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Overcoming limitations of nanomechanical resonators with simultaneous resonances

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-09-02 v1

Abstract

Dynamic stabilization by simultaneous primary and superharmonic resonances for high order nonlinearity cancellation is demonstrated with an electrostatically-actuated, piezoresistively-transduced nanomechanical resonator. We prove experimentally how the combination of both the third-order nonlinearity cancellation and simultaneous resonances can be used to linearly drive a nanocantilever up to very large amplitudes compared to fundamental limits like pull-in occurrence, opening the way towards resonators with high frequency stability for high-performance sensing or time reference.

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@article{arxiv.1504.07533,
  title  = {Overcoming limitations of nanomechanical resonators with simultaneous resonances},
  author = {Najib Kacem and Sébastien Baguet and Laurent Duraffourg and Guillaume Jourdan and Régis Dufour and Sébastien Hentz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07533},
  year   = {2015}
}