Evanescent-Field Optical Readout of Graphene Mechanical Motion at Room Temperature

Robin M. Cole, George A. Brawley, Vivekananda P. Adiga, Roberto De Alba, Jeevak M. Parpia, Bojan Ilic, Harold G. Craighead, and Warwick P. Bowen Queensland Quantum Optics Laboratory, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 205 Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Department of Physics, Cornell University, 109 Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, Cornell University, 250J Duffield Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA (Received 10 August 2014; revised manuscript received 14 November 2014; published 17 February 2015)