Coherent energy transfer in coupled nonlinear microelectromechanical resonators
Energy decay, describing the leakage of system energy to the environmental bath, is a universal behavior in oscillators. It has been utilized to elucidate energy transfer between vibrational modes of a resonator. In coupled resonators, achieving an ultra-low coupling rate is essential for observing energy interactions between resonators and environmental bath. Here, we observe periodic transient beating phenomenon by analyzing the transient responses of coupled nonlinear resonators with a coupling rate of 9.6 Hz. The energy transfer rate indicating the hybrid energy manipulation is impacted by asymmetry-induced energy localization and enhanced by nonlinearity. Time-resolved eigenstates, characterized by amplitude ratios, are employed as a quantitative tool to uncover the energy transfer and localization in coupled resonators under nonlinear operations. This work opens the possibilities to manipulate energy transfer, to probe energy localization, and to develop high-precision sensors utilizing the energy transfer between coupled nonlinear resonators.
Authors
- Geer Teng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5148-8139)
- Chun Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-1424)
- Guillermo Sobreviela (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3367-0137)
- Jiangkun Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6023-5694)
- Ashwin A. Seshia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9305-6879)
- Madan Parajuli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9702-5110)
- Weizheng Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9490-7188)
- Honglong Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-3658)
- Milind Pandit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7862-7984)
- Zhenxing Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8236-1931)
- Haojie Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-5146)
- Dongyang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0098-2975)
- Hemin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1067-1137)
- Samuel Kirkbride (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1673-4785)
Institutions
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IN)
- Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of York (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2025-04-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59292-2
- Citations
- 10
- Primary Topic
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.47
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities