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High-stress Si$_3$N$_4$ nanoresonators have become an attractive choice for electro- and optomechanical devices. Membrane resonators can achieve quality factor ($Q$) - frequency ($f$) products exceeding $10^{13}$ Hz, enabling (in principle)…
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We investigate the effect of free electrons on the quality factor (Q) of a metallic nanomechanical resonator in the form of a thin elastic beam. The flexural and longitudinal modes of the beam are modeled using thin beam elasticity theory,…
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The temperature dependences of the energy and the width of a surface plasmon resonance are studied for copper nanoparticles 17 - 59 nm in size in the silica host matrix in the temperature interval 293 - 460 K. An increase of the temperature…
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