Mechanical Mixing in Nonlinear Nanomechanical Resonators

Preprint

15 December 1999

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9912278

Abstract

Nanomechanical resonators, machined out of Silicon-on-Insulator wafers, are operated in the nonlinear regime to investigate higher-order mechanical mixing at radio frequencies, relevant to signal processing and nonlinear dynamics on nanometer scales. Driven by two neighboring frequencies the resonators generate rich power spectra exhibiting a multitude of satellite peaks. This nonlinear response is studied and compared to $n^{th}$-order perturbation theory and nonperturbative numerical calculations.

Keywords

NANOMECHANICAL RESONATORS
NONLINEAR NANOMECHANICAL
PERTURBATION THEORY
INVESTIGATE HIGHER
MECHANICAL MIXING
NANOMETER SCALES
RESONATORS
SILICON

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Version 1, 1999-12-15, ArXiv
Published version: Applied Physics Letters, 77 (19), 3102.