Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Force sensitivity of multilayer graphene optomechanical devices

  • P. Weber,
  • J. Güttinger,
  • A. Noury,
  • J. Vergara-Cruz,
  • A. Bachtold

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12496
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Graphene is a promising material for the design of mechanical resonators. Here, the authors fabricate a multilayer graphene resonator coupled to a superconducting cavity, to achieve efficient readout of mechanical vibrations and quantitatively investigate its force sensing performance.