Carbon Nanotube-Based Nanomechanical Receiver for Digital Data Transfer

Nanomechanical systems offer a versatile platform for both fundamental science and industrial applications. Resonating vibration has been demonstrated to enable an ultrasensitive detection of various physical quantities, with emerging applications including signal processing, biological tests quantum mechanics. It also shown that the mechanical nanoscale cantilever can be used detect electromagnetic analogue-modulated waves. However, signals obtained receivers are so weak data transfer often fails; best our knowledge, no successful practical demonstration yet reported. Here, we present first experimental use nanomechanical digital image. Furthermore, fabrication method achieved tiny gap around field emitter vibrational nano-antenna, which enables receiver work quite low power consumption, on order 10nW.