High-frequency micromechanical resonators from aluminium-carbon nanotube nanolaminates

Jung Hoon Bak, Young Duck Kim, Seung Sae Hong, Byung Yang Lee, Seung Ran Lee, Jae Hyuck Jang, Miyoung Kim, Kookrin Char, Seunghun Hong, Yun Daniel Park

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Abstract

At micro- and nanoscales, materials with high Youngs moduli and low densities are of great interest for high-frequency micromechanical resonator devices. Incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNTs), with their unmatched properties, has added functionality to many man-made composites. We report on the fabrication of 100-nm-thick laminates by sputter-deposition of aluminium onto a two-dimensional single-walled CNT network. These nanolaminatescomposed of Al, its native oxide Al"2O"3 and CNTsare fashioned, in a scalable manner, into suspended doubly clamped micromechanical beams. Dynamic flexural measurements show marked increases in resonant frequencies for nanolaminates with Al-CNT laminae. Such increases, further supported by quasi-static flexural measurements, are partly attributable to enhancements in elastic properties arising from the addition of CNTs. As a consequence, these nanolaminate micromechanical resonators show significant suppression of mechanical nonlinearity and enhanced strength, both of which are advantageous for practical applications and analogous to biological nanocomposites, similarly composed of high-aspect-ratio, mechanically superior mineral platelets in a soft protein matrix.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)459-463
Number of pages5
JournalNature Materials
Volume7
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Chemistry(all)
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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