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Nanotube oscillator based on a short single-walled carbon nanotube bundle

Jeong Won Kang1,2, Ki Oh Song1, Ho Jung Hwang1 and Qing Jiang2

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Carbon nanotube (CNT) oscillators based on a single-walled CNT bundle were investigated using classical molecular dynamics simulations. We present the schematics of a CNT bundle oscillator that could be initiated by an electrostatic capacitive force. While the capacitive force acting on a CNT oscillator extruded it, the force exerted on the CNT oscillator by the excess van der Waals energy sucked it into the bundle. Therefore, the CNT oscillator could be oscillated by both Coulomb and the van der Waals interactions. The operation frequency of a CNT bundle oscillator could be controlled by both the size and the length of the bundle. Our molecular dynamics simulation results showed unique features of the CNT bundle oscillators such as chaotic signature and high damping rate. CNT oscillation in the bundle showed the coupled motion to be dependent on other CNTs rather than a collective motion of the bundle. As the number of CNTs in the bundle oscillator increased, the chaotic signature of the CNT bundle oscillator increased with the increasing of coupled CNTs.


PACS

85.85.+j Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices

81.07.De Nanotubes

73.63.Fg Nanotubes

61.46.Fg Nanotubes

02.70.Ns Molecular dynamics and particle methods

Subjects

Computational physics

Electronics and devices

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 9 (14 May 2006)

Received 20 December 2005

Published 7 April 2006



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