{"id":482,"date":"2019-10-14T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/?p=482"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:13:17","slug":"in-nature-physics-a-nanotube-oscillator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/2019\/10\/14\/in-nature-physics-a-nanotube-oscillator\/","title":{"rendered":"In Nature Physics: A nanotube oscillator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_483\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-image-483 size-medium\" style=\"font-weight: bold;text-align: center;max-width: 98%;border: 1px solid #cccccc;padding: 5px;margin: 0px 0px -1ex\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-2.png?resize=300%2C188\" alt=\"Emission spectrum of a nanotube oscillator\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-2.png?resize=300%2C188 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-2.png?w=615 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emission spectrum of a driven nanotube oscillator as a function of frequency (left axis) and drive power (bottom axis).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our paper <a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bUfIC\">A coherent nanomechanical oscillator driven by single-electron tunnelling<\/a> is online in <em>Nature Physics<\/em> today.<\/p>\n<p>When electrical leads are attached to a suspended carbon nanotube, the nanotube&#8217;s motion can be detected from changes in the electrical current that passes through it. At the same time, the nanotube experiences a fluctuating electrostatic force depending on the number of electrons present. Our paper shows that the feedback between these two effects can generate a coherent mechanical oscillation, driven purely by the d.c. current through the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper A coherent nanomechanical oscillator driven by single-electron tunnelling is online in Nature Physics today. When electrical leads are attached to a suspended carbon nanotube, the nanotube&#8217;s motion can be detected from changes in the electrical current that passes through it. At the same time, the nanotube experiences a fluctuating electrostatic force depending on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QgAe-7M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/laird-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}