title: Bending-mode vibration of a suspended nanotube resonator.
abstract: We have used a suspended carbon nanotube as a frequency mixer to detect its own mechanical motion. A single gate-dependent resonance is observed, which we attribute to the fundamental bending mode vibration of the suspended carbon nanotubes. A continuum model is used to fit the gate dependence of the resonance frequency, from which we obtain values for the fundamental frequency, the residual and gate-induced tension in the nanotube. This analysis shows that the nanotubes in our devices have no slack and that, by applying a gate voltage, the nanotube can be tuned from a regime without strain to a regime where it behaves as a vibrating string under tension.
authors.affiliation: Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Witkamp
authors.forename: Menno
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poot
authors.forename: Herre S J
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: van der Zant