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

The unique properties and atomic thickness of two-dimensional (2D) materials enable
smaller and better nanoelectromechanical sensors with novel functionalities. During the last …

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

Mechanical sources of nonlinear damping play a central role in modern physics, from solid-
state physics to thermodynamics. The microscopic theory of mechanical dissipation …

The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing
attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics …

Nonlinearities are inherent to the dynamics of two-dimensional materials. Phenomena-like
intermodal coupling already arise at amplitudes of only a few nanometers, and a range of …

Mode interactions have recently become the focus of intense research in micro/
nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS) due to their ability to improve device …

The emergence of graphene and other two-dimensional materials overcomes the limitation
in the characteristic size of silicon-based micro-resonators and paved the way in the …

Mechanical nonlinearities dominate the motion of nanoresonators already at relatively small
oscillation amplitudes. Although single and coupled two-degree-of-freedom models have …

This study presents a thorough theoretical and experimental investigation on the nonlinear
damping of in-plane micromachined electromechanical resonators. More specifically …