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Nanotubes resound better

Advanced measurement techniques combined with a tightly controlled noise environment have enabled the creation of carbon nanotube-based mechanical resonators with quality factors of up to five million.

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Figure 1: Improving the quality factor of carbon nanotube mechanical resonators.

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Khivrich, I., Ilani, S. Nanotubes resound better. Nature Nanotech 9, 963–964 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.297

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