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This work demonstrates a new strategy for fabricating ultrathin diamond resonators, indicating potential for advanced nanomechanical sensing.
Ultrathin single‐crystal diamond (SCD) resonators offer exceptional potential for high‐performance nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), but achieving sub‐100 nm thickness with low dissipation remains a major fabrication challenge. In this work, we develop a smart‐cut‐assisted thinning strategy to reliably fabricate SCD cantilevers with thicknesses down to ~50 nm, representing the thinnest SCD NEMS cantilever achieved to date. Operating from 10 kHz to 3 MHz, these devices exhibit high‐quality factors (∼5 × 10 4 at room temperature and ∼6 × 10 3 at 773 K). The resulting ultrathin resonators exhibit controllable geometries with resonance frequencies that closely follow the Euler–Bernoulli beam model, confirming high structural integrity. The cantilevers demonstrate robust thermal stability, with a low temperature coefficient of frequency of −10 ppm/K. As a result, the ultrathin diamond cantilevers yield a force sensitivity of ∼10 −17 N/Hz 1/2 and a mass resolution of ∼5.89 × 10 −20 kg, close to that of a carbon nanotube cantilever. This work establishes the strategy for batch fabrication of ultrathin SCD NEMS resonators as a highly promising platform for next‐generation high‐sensitivity and robust nanomechanical sensing.
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