Mechanical mechanisms have been used to process information for millennia, with famous
examples ranging from the Antikythera mechanism of the Ancient Greeks to the analytical …

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Coupled oscillators are highly complex dynamical systems, and it is an intriguing concept to
use this oscillator dynamics for computation. The idea is not new, but is currently the subject …

Mechanical instabilities, especially in the form of bistable and multistable mechanisms, have
recently garnered a lot of interest as a mode of improving the capabilities and increasing the …

Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Coupled nanomechanical resonators have recently attracted great attention for both
practical applications and fundamental studies owing to their sensitive sympathetic …

Synchronization, the emergence of spontaneous order in coupled systems, is of
fundamental importance in both physical and biological systems. We demonstrate the …

Carbon nanotube mechanical resonators have attracted considerable interest because of
their small mass, the high quality of their surfaces, and the pristine electronic states they host …

This article is a review of the dissipation processes in nanoelectromechanical systems
(NEMS). As NEMS technology becomes more and more prevalent in research and …

Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …