Single-walled carbon nanotubes as ultrahigh frequency nanomechanical resonators
- 28 August 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 68 (7), 073405
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.68.073405
Abstract
The high stiffness and strength, low density, and large aspect ratio of single-walled carbon nanotubes make them good candidates as nanoresonators. Employing an atomistic modeling technique, molecular structural mechanics, this work predicts that the fundamental frequencies of cantilevered or bridged single-walled carbon nanotubes as nanomechanical resonators could reach the level of 10 GHz–1.5 THz. The effects of tube diameter, length and end constraints on the fundamental frequency have been discerned.Keywords
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