Print Email Facebook Twitter Nanomechanical properties of few-layer graphene membranes Title Nanomechanical properties of few-layer graphene membranes Author Poot, M. Van der Zant, H.S.J. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Date 2008-02-13 Abstract We have measured the mechanical properties of few-layer graphene and graphite flakes that are suspended over circular holes. The spatial profile of the flake’s spring constant is measured with an atomic force microscope. The bending rigidity of and the tension in the membranes are extracted by fitting a continuum model to the data. For flakes down to eight graphene layers, both parameters show a strong thickness dependence. We predict fundamental resonance frequencies of these nanodrums in the gigahertz range based on the measured bending rigidity and tension. Subject atomic force microscopybendinggraphitemembranesmultilayersshear modulus To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:890ed17c-19c8-4765-ba3b-4f9309d3f11c DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2857472 Publisher American Institute of Physics ISSN 0003-6951 Source http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v92/i6/p063111/s1 Source Applied Physics Letters, 92 (6), 2008 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2008 The Author(s); American Institute of Physics Files PDF Poot_2008.pdf 293.3 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:890ed17c-19c8-4765-ba3b-4f9309d3f11c/datastream/OBJ/view