We use suspended graphene electromechanical resonators to study the variation of resonant frequency as a function of temperature. Measuring the change in frequency resulting from a change in tension, from 300 to 30 K, allows us to extract information about the thermal expansion of monolayer graphene as a function of temperature, which is critical for strain engineering applications. We find that thermal expansion of graphene is negative for all temperatures between 300 and 30 K. We also study the dispersion, the variation of resonant frequency with DC gate voltage, of the electromechanical modes and find considerable tunability of resonant frequency, desirable for applications like mass sensing and RF signal processing at room temperature. With a lowering of temperature, we find that the positively dispersing electromechanical modes evolve into negatively dispersing ones. We quantitatively explain this crossover and discuss optimal electromechanical properties that are desirable for temperature-compensated sensors.
We probe the magnetotransport properties of individual InAs nanowires in a
field effect transistor geometry. In the low magnetic field regime we observe
magnetoresistance that is well described by the weak localization (WL)
description in diffusive conductors. The weak localization correction is
modified to weak anti-localization (WAL) as the gate voltage is increased. We
show that the gate voltage can be used to tune the phase coherence length
($l_\phi$) and spin-orbit length ($l_{so}$) by a factor of $\sim$ 2. In the
high field and low temperature regime we observe the mobility of devices can be
modified significantly as a function of magnetic field. We argue that the role
of skipping orbits and the nature of surface scattering is essential in
understanding high field magnetotransport in nanowires
We probe electro-mechanical properties of InAs nanowire (diameter ∼100 nm) resonators where the suspended nanowire (NW) is also the active channel of a field effect transistor (FET). We observe and explain the non-monotonic dispersion of the resonant frequency with DC gate voltage). The effect of electronic screening on the properties of the resonator can be seen in the amplitude. We observe the mixing of mechanical modes with V DC g . We also experimentally probe and quantitatively explain the hysteretic non-linear properties, as a function of V DC g , of the resonator using the Duffing equation.
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