Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes as Gigahertz Oscillators
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- 9 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 88 (4) , 045503
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.045503
Abstract
The retraction energy of a multiwalled carbon nanotube with an extruded core causes the core to oscillate with respect to its fully retracted position where the van der Waals potential energy is minimized. This phenomenon, together with the available nanotechnology, leads to the creation of nanomechanical systems of operating frequency up to several gigahertz.Keywords
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