Synchronized Oscillation in Coupled Nanomechanical Oscillators

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1137307
• Publication Date: 2007-04-05T20:58:20Z
• Authors: Seung-Bo Shim; Matthias Imboden; Pritiraj Mohanty
• Keywords: Entrainment (biomusicology); Oscillation (cell signaling); Synchronization networks; Subharmonic

We report measurements of synchronization in two nanomechanical beam oscillators coupled by a mechanical element. charted multiple regions frequency entrainment or their corresponding Arnold's tongue diagrams as the oscillator was driven at subharmonic and rational commensurate frequencies. Demonstration synchronized could be fundamentally important to neurocomputing with networks signal processing for microwave communication.