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Area of Science:

  • Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • High-aspect-ratio mechanical resonators are crucial for precision sensing applications.
  • Fabrication and computational challenges have limited the development of such devices with high length-to-thickness ratios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and fabricate novel nanomechanical resonators with unprecedented length-to-thickness ratios.
  • To explore the performance of these resonators at room temperature, aiming for high quality factors.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an optimization approach combining fast millimeter-scale simulations with computationally intensive centimeter-scale design optimization.
  • Employed advanced nanofabrication techniques for high-yield realization of the resonators.
  • Experimentally characterized the resonators' performance, focusing on quality factors at room temperature.

Main Results:

  • Successfully fabricated nanomechanical resonators with centimeter-scale length and nanometer-scale thickness.
  • Achieved room-temperature quality factors approaching 10 billion at kilohertz frequencies.
  • Demonstrated performance comparable to leading cryogenic resonators and levitated nanospheres.

Conclusions:

  • The developed resonators open a new regime in nano-engineering for high-aspect-ratio devices.
  • The synergy of nanofabrication, machine learning-guided design, and precision engineering enables high-performance solid-state resonators.
  • These findings pave the way for advanced room-temperature precision sensing technologies.