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High-quality nanomechanical resonator based on a defect-free gold nanowire

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Nanomechanical resonators were fabricated using defect-free single-crystalline Au nanowires (NWs), and their mechanical properties were investigated by using the magneto-motive detection method. The fabricated Au NW resonators exhibited a resonance frequency of 33–119 MHz and a quality factor of 1800 ∼ 11000, depending on the resonator’s dimensions. Compared to its amorphous film counterpart, the Au NW resonator showed noticeable increases in both the resonance frequency and the quality factor. Also observed was a significant increase in the dynamic range for the NW resonator. These improvements could be attributed to low and uniform energy dissipation by the defect-free single-crystalline Au NW resonator. In addition, the length dependence of the nonlinear characteristics was observed. Mechanical softening was observed in the case of short (l = 2 µm and 3 µm) resonators while mechanical hardening was observed in the case of long (l = 4 µm) resonators.

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  1. Minkyung Jung

    Present address: Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland

  2. Youngdong Yoo

    Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, UK

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  1. Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, 305-600, Korea

    Jung-Won Chang, Minkyung Jung, Sang Goon Kim, Seung-Bo Shim & Jinhee Kim

  2. Department of Display and Semiconductor Physics, Korea University Sejong Campus, Sejong, 339-700, Korea

    Jung-Won Chang & Soon Gul Lee

  3. Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

    Youngdong Yoo & Bongsoo Kim

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Chang, JW., Jung, M., Kim, S.G. et al. High-quality nanomechanical resonator based on a defect-free gold nanowire. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 63, 263–268 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.63.263

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