Contact: Lori Oliwenstein
lorio@caltech.edu
626-395-3631
California Institute of Technology
Caption: Scanning electron microscope image of an array of "zipper" optomechanical cavities. The scale and sensitivity of the device is set by its physical mass (40 picograms/40 trillionths of a gram) and the nanoscale gap between the two nanobeams (100 nanometers/100 billionths of a meter).
Credit: Caltech/Matt Eichenfield and Jasper Chan
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