Vibration isolation of few-layer graphene sheets

This work shows that a few-layer graphene with two highly-tensioned outermost layers exhibits negative effective mass and behaves like an elastic metamaterial. Actually, our simulations based on simple elastic membrane model confirm the existence of a bandgap in terahertz range within which a tensioned few-layer graphene exhibits remarkable vibration isolation: forced vibration will be highly restricted to a narrow region around the site of the...