Publications by authors named "Tal Tabachnik"

Bi-stable mechanical resonators play a significant role in various applications, such as sensors, memory elements, quantum computing and mechanical parametric amplification. While carbon nanotube based resonators have been widely investigated as promising NEMS devices, a bi-stable carbon nanotube resonator has never been demonstrated. Here, we report a class of carbon nanotube resonators in which the nanotube is buckled upward.

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Bistable arched beams exhibiting Euler-Bernoulli snap-through buckling are widely investigated as promising candidates for various potential applications, such as memory devices, energy harvesters, sensors, and actuators. Recently, we reported the realization of a buckled suspended carbon nanotube (CNT) based bistable resonator, which exhibits a unique three-dimensional snap-through transition and an extremely large change in frequency as a result. In this article, we address a unique characteristic of these devices in which a significant change in the DC conductance is also observed at the mechanical snap-through transition.

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