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Tadokoro Y, Funayama K, Kawano K, Miura A, Hirotani J, Ohno Y, Tanaka H. Artificial-intelligence-assisted mass fabrication of nanocantilevers from randomly positioned single carbon nanotubes. MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING 2023; 9:32. [PMID: 36969967 PMCID: PMC10033894 DOI: 10.1038/s41378-023-00507-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Revised: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Nanoscale cantilevers (nanocantilevers) made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) provide tremendous benefits in sensing and electromagnetic applications. This nanoscale structure is generally fabricated using chemical vapor deposition and/or dielectrophoresis, which contain manual, time-consuming processes such as the placing of additional electrodes and careful observation of single-grown CNTs. Here, we demonstrate a simple and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted method for the efficient fabrication of a massive CNT-based nanocantilever. We used randomly positioned single CNTs on the substrate. The trained deep neural network recognizes the CNTs, measures their positions, and determines the edge of the CNT on which an electrode should be clamped to form a nanocantilever. Our experiments demonstrate that the recognition and measurement processes are automatically completed in 2 s, whereas comparable manual processing requires 12 h. Notwithstanding the small measurement error by the trained network (within 200 nm for 90% of the recognized CNTs), more than 34 nanocantilevers were successfully fabricated in one process. Such high accuracy contributes to the development of a massive field emitter using the CNT-based nanocantilever, in which the output current is obtained with a low applied voltage. We further showed the benefit of fabricating massive CNT-nanocantilever-based field emitters for neuromorphic computing. The activation function, which is a key function in a neural network, was physically realized using an individual CNT-based field emitter. The introduced neural network with the CNT-based field emitters recognized handwritten images successfully. We believe that our method can accelerate the research and development of CNT-based nanocantilevers for realizing promising future applications.
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- Yukihiro Tadokoro
- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi Japan
- Toyota Research Institute of North America, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi Japan
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The symmetry in the model of two coupled Kerr oscillators leads to simultaneous multi-photon transitions. Sci Rep 2023; 13:2997. [PMID: 36810462 PMCID: PMC9944305 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30197-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023] Open
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We consider the model of two coupled oscillators with Kerr nonlinearities in the rotating-wave approximation. We demonstrate that for a certain set of parameters of the model, the multi-photon transitions occur between many pairs of the oscillator states simultaneously. Also, the position of the multi-photon resonances does not depend on the coupling strength between two oscillators. We prove rigorously that this is a consequence of a certain symmetry of the perturbation theory series for the model. In addition, we analyse the model in the quasi-classical limit by considering the dynamics of the pseudo-angular momentum. We identify the multi-photon transitions with the tunnelling transitions between the degenerate classical trajectories on the Bloch sphere.
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Kumar S, Rebari S, Pal SP, Yadav SS, Kumar A, Aggarwal A, Indrajeet S, Venkatesan A. Temperature-Dependent Nonlinear Damping in Palladium Nanomechanical Resonators. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:2975-2981. [PMID: 33755479 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Advances in nanofabrication techniques have made it feasible to observe damping phenomena beyond the linear regime in nanomechanical systems. In this work, we report cubic nonlinear damping in palladium nanomechanical resonators. Nanoscale palladium beams exposed to a H2 atmosphere become softer and display enhanced Duffing nonlinearity as well as nonlinear damping at ultralow temperatures. The damping is highest at the lowest temperatures of ∼110 mK and decreases when warmed up to ∼1 K. We experimentally demonstrate for the first time temperature-dependent nonlinear damping in a nanomechanical system below 1 K. This is consistent with a predicted two-phonon-mediated nonlinear Akhiezer scenario with a ballistic phonon mean free path comparable to the beam thickness. This opens up new possibilities to engineer nonlinear phenomena at low temperatures.
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- Shelender Kumar
- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli, P.O. 140306, India
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Funayama K, Tanaka H, Hirotani J, Shimaoka K, Ohno Y, Tadokoro Y. Dependence of enhancement factor on electrode size for field emission current from carbon nanotube on silicon wafer. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 30:425201. [PMID: 31323658 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab33c8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This work studies the enhancement factor associated with a current emitted from a multi-wall carbon nanotube to an extremely small counter electrode. The experimental data show that the field enhancement factor increases by 1.15 times when the width of the counter electrode increases from 50 to 200 nm. To better understand this enhancement effect, field intensities at the emitter surface are numerically simulated. The experimental work and simulations demonstrate that the observed field enhancement results from increases in the capacitance between the emitter and counter electrode. In addition, corrugated counter electrodes are found to greatly affect both the capacitance and enhancement factor. This is because the corrugation of the anode surface raises the capacitance and thus provides a higher current. We experimentally show that an effective surface area enlargement of 1.67 times due to the corrugation provides a 1.06-fold increase of the enhancement factor. These results should assist in the future development of field emission devices based on semiconductor fabrication processes.
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- Keita Funayama
- Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratory, Inc., Nagakute 480-1192, Japan. Department of Electronics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
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Chen Y, Gemmer JA, Silber M, Volkening A. Noise-induced tipping under periodic forcing: Preferred tipping phase in a non-adiabatic forcing regime. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2019; 29:043119. [PMID: 31042947 DOI: 10.1063/1.5083973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We consider a periodically forced 1D Langevin equation that possesses two stable periodic solutions in the absence of noise. We ask the question: is there a most likely noise-induced transition path between these periodic solutions that allows us to identify a preferred phase of the forcing when tipping occurs? The quasistatic regime, where the forcing period is long compared to the adiabatic relaxation time, has been well studied; our work instead explores the case when these time scales are comparable. We compute optimal paths using the path integral method incorporating the Onsager-Machlup functional and validate results with Monte Carlo simulations. Results for the preferred tipping phase are compared with the deterministic aspects of the problem. We identify parameter regimes where nullclines, associated with the deterministic problem in a 2D extended phase space, form passageways through which the optimal paths transit. As the nullclines are independent of the relaxation time and the noise strength, this leads to a robust deterministic predictor of the preferred tipping phase in a regime where forcing is neither too fast nor too slow.
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- Yuxin Chen
- Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60204, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
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- Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics and Department of Statistics,University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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