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Modal "self-coupling" as a sensitive probe for nanomechanical detection

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  • M. Defoort
  • K. J. Lulla
  • C. Blanc
  • O. Bourgeois
  • E. Collin
  • A. D. Armour
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Article number013104
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/07/2013
<mark>Journal</mark>Applied Physics Letters
Issue number1
Volume103
Number of pages3
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present a high-sensitivity measurement technique for mechanical nanoresonators. Due to intrinsic nonlinear effects, different flexural modes of a nanobeam can be coupled while driving each of them on resonance. This mode-coupling scheme is dispersive and one mode resonance shifts with respect to the motional amplitude of the other. The same idea can be implemented on a single mode, exciting it with two slightly detuned signals. This two-tone scheme is used here to measure the resonance lineshape of one mode through a frequency shift in the response of the device. The method acts as an amplitude-to- frequency transduction which ultimately suffers only from phase noise of the local oscillator used and of the nanomechanical device itself. We also present a theory which reproduces the data without free parameters.