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Rocking at the nanoscale

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Three different mechanical waveforms are generated at the nanoscale by Fourier synthesis of surface acoustic waves.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the optomechanical interaction between a synthesized sawtooth surface acoustic waveform and single embedded quantum dots (QDs) in a semiconductor heterostructure, where carriers are generated by an incident laser.

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  1. Ignacio Wilson-Rae is in the Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK,

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Wilson-Rae, I. Rocking at the nanoscale. Nature Nanotech 10, 489–490 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.119

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