Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill Institute for Advanced Materials, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke Street West, Room 253, Montreal, Que., Canada H3A 2K6
Abstract:
The critical frequency of Gorsky damping coincides with the structural resonant frequencies of nanomechanical structures over a wide range of solute diffusivities. A lower bound of 1 at.% hydrogen in silicon is estimated for Gorsky damping to attain values comparable to previously measured loss coefficients of single-crystal silicon nanomechanical cantilever-beam resonators.