401 research outputs found
Efficient readout of micromechanical resonator arrays in ambient conditions
We present a method for efficient spectral readout of mechanical resonator
arrays in dissipative environments. Magnetomotive drive and detection is used
to drive double clamped resonators in the nonlinear regime. Resonators with
almost identical resonance frequencies can be tracked individually by sweeping
the drive power. Measurements are performed at room temperature and atmospheric
pressure. These conditions enable application in high throughput resonant
sensor arrays.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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Strongly coupled modes in a weakly driven micromechanical resonator
We demonstrate strong coupling between the flexural vibration modes of a
clamped-clamped micromechanical resonator vibrating at low amplitudes. This
coupling enables the direct measurement of the frequency response via
amplitude- and phase modulation schemes using the fundamental mode as a
mechanical detector. In the linear regime, a frequency shift of
is observed for a mode with a line width of
in vacuum. The measured response is well-described by the
analytical model based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam including tension.
Calculations predict an upper limit for the room-temperature Q-factor of
for our top-down fabricated micromechanical beam
resonators.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Surface Phason-Polaritons in Charge Density Wave Films
The coupled non-radiative excitations of the electromagnetic field and
phasons in films with a quasi one-dimensional charge density wave (CDW) are
evaluated for P--polarization and CDW conducting axis inside the film. The
prominent features are two surface phason-polariton branches extending from the
CDW pinning frequency to the frequency of the longitudinal optical phason.
These surface phason-polariton states are confined to a finite band of
longitudinal wave numbers. Besides surface polaritons, infinite series of
guided wave modes are found which extend to large wave numbers. These
differences to usual phonon-polaritons are caused by the extreme anisotropy of
the electric CDW reponse. This new class of surface polaritons is expected to
be found in the submillimeter frequency range.Comment: Latex2e, 18 pages, to be published in J. Phys. Chem. Solid
Nonlinear Viscous Vortex Motion in Two-Dimensional Josephson-Junction Arrays
When a vortex in a two-dimensional Josephson junction array is driven by a
constant external current it may move as a particle in a viscous medium. Here
we study the nature of this viscous motion. We model the junctions in a square
array as resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junctions and carry out
numerical calculations of the current-voltage characteristics. We find that the
current-voltage characteristics in the damped regime are well described by a
model with a {\bf nonlinear} viscous force of the form , where is the vortex velocity,
is the velocity dependent viscosity and and are
constants for a fixed value of the Stewart-McCumber parameter. This result is
found to apply also for triangular lattices in the overdamped regime. Further
qualitative understanding of the nature of the nonlinear friction on the vortex
motion is obtained from a graphic analysis of the microscopic vortex dynamics
in the array. The consequences of having this type of nonlinear friction law
are discussed and compared to previous theoretical and experimental studies.Comment: 14 pages RevTex, 9 Postscript figure
Magnetomotive drive and detection of clamped-clamped mechanical resonators in water
We demonstrate magnetomotive drive and detection of doubly clamped string
resonators in water. A compact 1.9 T permanent magnet is used to detect the
fundamental and higher flexural modes of long resonators.
Good agreement is found between the magnetomotive measurements and optical
measurements performed on the same resonator. The magnetomotive detection
scheme can be used to simultaneously drive and detect multiple sensors or
scanning probes in viscous fluids without alignment of detector beams.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Vortex reflection at boundaries of Josephson-junction arrays
We study the propagation properties of a single vortex in square
Josephson-junction arrays (JJA) with free boundaries and subject to an applied
dc current. We model the dynamics of the JJA by the resistively and
capacitively shunted junction (RCSJ) equations. For zero Stewart-McCumber
parameter we find that the vortex always escapes from the array when
it gets to the boundary. For and for low currents we find
that the vortex escapes, while for larger currents the vortex is reflected as
an antivortex at one edge and the antivortex as a vortex at the other, leading
to a stationary oscillatory state and to a non-zero time-averaged voltage. The
escape and the reflection of a vortex at the array edges are qualitatively
explained in terms of a coarse-grained model of a vortex interacting
logarithmically with its image. We also discuss the case when the free
boundaries are at degrees with respect to the direction of the vortex
motion. Finally, we discuss the effect of self-induced magnetic fields by
taking into account the full-range inductance matrix of the array, and find
qualitatively equivalent results.Comment: 14 pages RevTex, 9 Postscript figure
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