title: Intrinsic energy loss mechanisms in a cantilevered carbon nanotube beam oscillator.
abstract: Classical molecular dynamics is applied to study the energy dissipation (the Q factor) of the cantilever-type beam oscillators of single wall and double-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The study finds that the Q factor of the CNT beam oscillator varies with the temperature T following the 1/T(0.36) dependence. For single wall CNT, the Q factor drops from 2 x 10(5) at 0.05 K to 1.5 x 10(3) at 293 K. The study further reveals that the weak interlayer binding strength and the interlayer commensurance significantly increases the energy dissipation in the double-walled CNT oscillator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: M-F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang