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A Mechanical Beam Resonator Engineered at Nanoscale for Ultralow Thermoelastic Damping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2018

N. D. Vy ,
N. V. Cuong  and
C. M. Hoang
N. D. Vy
Affiliation:
Theoretical Physics Research Group Advanced Institute of Materials Science Ton Duc Thang UniversityHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam Faculty of Applied Sciences Ton Duc Thang UniversityHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
N. V. Cuong
Affiliation:
International Training Institute for Materials Science Hanoi University of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam
C. M. Hoang*
Affiliation:
International Training Institute for Materials Science Hanoi University of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam
*
*Corresponding author ([email protected])
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Abstract

A mechanical beam resonator engineered at nanoscale for suppressing thermoelastic damping to obtain ultrahigh quality factor is reported. The resonator employs the torsion mode of a spring beam to excite the rotation oscillation of a nanoscale resonant beam. The ultralow thermoelastic damping in the resonator is obtained by employing torsion oscillation. Optimal study of thermoelastic damping is carried out by varying the dimensional parameters of the resonator. The resonator operating in the MHz regime with the quality factor over one million is obtainable by the proposed oscillation exciting method and appropriate design of dimensional parameters of the beams. In order to obtain such overall intrinsic quality factor, virtual supports are employed to eliminate attachment loss in the resonator.

Keywords

Mechanical beam resonatorTorsional oscillationUultralow thermoelastic dampingIntrinsic damping.
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Research Article
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Journal of Mechanics , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , June 2019 , pp. 351 - 358
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© The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2018 

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