Schwender, Jill (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
In recent years, carbon nanotube and graphene mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention because of their unique properties. Their high resonance frequencies, high quality factors and ...
Napolitano, Mario (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
In this manuscript we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of quantum-noise-limited measurement by nonlinear interferometry, or from another perspective, quantum-noise-limited ...