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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2011
Kenneth J. Jensen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Caglar O. Girit, Saint Cloud, FR;
William E. Mickelson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander K. Zettl, Kensington, CA (US);
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Brookline, MA (US);
Kenneth J. Jensen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Caglar O. Girit, Saint Cloud, FR;
William E. Mickelson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander K. Zettl, Kensington, CA (US);
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Brookline, MA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A tunable nanoscale resonator has potential applications in precise mass, force, position, and frequency measurement. One embodiment of this device consists of a specially prepared multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) suspended between a metal electrode and a mobile, piezoelectrically controlled contact. By harnessing a unique telescoping ability of MWNTs, one may controllably slide an inner nanotube core from its outer nanotube casing, effectively changing its length and thereby changing the tuning of its resonance frequency. Resonant energy transfer may be used with a nanoresonator to detect molecules at a specific target oscillation frequency, without the use of a chemical label, to provide label-free chemical species detection.