Nanoelectromechanical relaxation oscillator Supplementary Material

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Still Images

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Schematic diagram of relaxation oscillator. (Figure 1 in the Applied Physics Letter). 

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TEM video stills showing an operating relaxation oscillator. (Figure 2A in the Applied Physics Letter). 

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Computer-generated stills illustrating relaxation oscillator operation.  Created by Kenny Jensen

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• Time series .jpg 364KB
• Time series frames (low res, ~110 KB) jpg 1 jpg 2 jpg 3 jpg 4 jpg 5 jpg 6

Videos

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Computer-generated movie shows an artist's conception of the operation of the relaxation oscillator, and a possible application.  Created by Kenny Jensen

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• QuickTime (4.2 MB - thanks to Zav for compression help)
• animated gif (0.7 MB, first 1 second only)

TEM video data showing an operating relaxation oscillator, with explanatory text overlaid.  Published online with the Applied Physics Letter.

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• QuickTime (8.7 MB)