{"id":9,"date":"2007-08-16T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:30:54","slug":"nano-electromechanical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Nano-electromechanical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya&#8217;ll heard of MEMs (micro-electromechanical devices), right? So it was never gonna be long before we got the lowdown on NEMS nano-electromechanical devices. They&#8217;re a-comin atcha.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that to make anything move on the nano scale, ya gotta yank it with an electric field and that means having a metallic conducting layer in there somewhere. Now adding a metal layer makes NEMs heavy, bulky and slow.<\/p>\n<p>But Dominik &#8220;Peeble&#8221; Scheible  at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.uni-muenchen.de\/index.html\">Ludwig-Maximilians University<\/a> in Germany says he&#8217;s souped up the existing design for NEMS to make &#8217;em faster, lighter and better&#8212;yeeehaaa.<\/p>\n<p>Peeble Scheible&#8217;s solution is to make NEMs out of a semiconductor such as silicon and create conducting regions within the silicon by implanting dopant atoms using focused ion beams.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s even gone and built himself a lil bitty nanobeam resonator out of silicon doped with gallium to prove he can do it. And it is bee-yoo-tiful&#8211;it&#8217;s nanoform following nanofuntion. A-sleek and a-shiny too. Ah am impressed.<\/p>\n<p>And now ya&#8217;ll just sit tight for pico, femto and atto-electromechanical devices.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0708.1296\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0708.1296<\/a>: Doped Nano-Electromechanical Systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya&#8217;ll heard of MEMs (micro-electromechanical devices), right? So it was never gonna be long before we got the lowdown on NEMS nano-electromechanical devices. They&#8217;re a-comin atcha. The problem is that to make anything move on the nano scale, ya gotta yank it with an electric field and that means having a metallic conducting layer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mean-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}