Elastic and inelastic interactions are studied in tunnel junctions of a superconducting nanoelectromechanical setup and in response to resent experimental superconducting scanning tunneling microscope findings on a paramagnetic molecule. In addition, the electron density of molecular graphene is modeled by a scattering theory approach in very good agreement with experiment. All studies where conducted through the use of model Hamiltonians and a Green function formalism. The nanoelectromechanical system comprise two fixed superconducting leads in-between which a cantilever suspended superconducting island oscillates in an asymmetric fashion with respect to both fixed leads. The Josephson current is found to modulate the island motion which in turn affects the current, such that parameter regions of periodic, quasi periodic and chaotic behavior arise. Our modeled STM setup reproduces the experimentally obtained spin excitations of the paramagnetic molecule and we show a probable cause for the increased uniaxial anisotropy observed when closing the gap distance of tip and substrate. A wider parameter space is also investigated including effects of external magnetic fields, temperature and transverse anisotropy. Molecular graphene turns out to be well described by our adopted scattering theory, producing results that are in good agreement with experiment. Several point like scattering centers are therefore well suited to describe a continuously decaying potential and effects of impurities are easily calculated.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第17985号 / 工博第3814号 / 新制||工||1584(附属図書館) / 80829 / 京都大学大学院工学研究科電子工学専攻 / (主査)教授 川上 養一, 教授 藤田 静雄, 准教授 浅野 卓 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

Ce travail de thèse porte sur l’étude de nouveaux phénomènes vibratoires dans les systèmes Nano-électromécaniques (NEMS) conçus à partir de nanofils (NFs) SiC ou de nanotubes de carbone (NCs) résonants. La configuration encastré-libre permet d'effectuer l'émission de champ (EC) pour caractériser nos échantillons et notamment mesurer le module de Young et le facteur de qualité (Q) de nos NEMS. Le chauffage du résonateur permet d'accroître fortement la valeur de Q des nanofils SiC (Qmax = 159 000). Les auto-oscillations observées sous EC sont obtenues seulement par l'application d'une tension continue et permettent un taux de conversion AC/DC de l'ordre de 50%. L'utilisation de NFs très résistifs couplée au courant d'EC est indispensable pour engendrer ces oscillations spontanées. La réalisation d'une nanoradio sous EC permet la démodulation d'un signal AM ou FM grâce à la résonance d'un NC. Nous décrivons une méthode originale pour exciter les vibrations d'un NF à partir du faisceau d'électrons d'un microscope électronique. L'évolution de la charge au bout du NF est la principale cause de ces auto-oscillations. La configuration encastré-encastré consiste à obtenir un transistor à base de NCs suspendus. Les composants sont caractérisés électriquement et mécaniquement dans un testeur sous pointe sous ultra vide à partir de techniques dites de mixing. La fréquence de résonance de ces échantillons est de l'ordre de 100 MHz et la démodulation d'un signal FM est réalisée pour la première fois dans cette configuration de NEMS. Pour l'ensemble des phénomènes découverts et traités dans ce manuscrit, un modèle et les simulations qui en découlent sont présentés et commentés / This thesis focuses on new phenomena in the mechanical resonances of SiC nanowires (NWs) and carbon nanotubes (CNs) of interest for the emerging field of nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS). The clamped-free confiuration allowed the study of our nanowire and nanotube samples by field emission (FE), including measuring the Young's modulus and the quality factor (Q). Heating NW resonators significantly increased their Q factor (Qmax = 159 000). Self-oscillations were observed during FE where only a DC voltage was applied, thus allowing DC/AC conversion with a rate of up to » 50%. Using highly resistive NWs coupled with FE current was required to generate these spontaneous oscillations. Achieving a nanoradio under FE allowed the demodulation of AM or FM signals through the mechanical resonance of CNs. We describe a new method to excite vibrations of a NW from the electron beam of an electron microscope. The evolution of the charge at the end of NW is the main source of these self-oscillations. The clamped-clamped configuration consists of a transistor based on suspended CNs. The devices are characterized electrically and mechanically in a probe station under ultrahigh vacuum with mixing techniques. The resonance frequencies of these samples was around 100 MHz. The demodulation of an FM signal was achieved for the first time in this NEMS configuration. For all the phenomena discovered and treated in this manuscript, a model and derived simulations are described and discussed