400 also includes a conductive element 412 in electrical contact with the nanotube element 410 a drive electrode 408 in spaced relation to the nanotube element 410 and power logic in electrical contact with die at least one drive electrode 408 the power logic provides a series of electrical pulses at a frequency selected to be about the same as the pre specified resonance frequency of the resonator 400 to the drive electrode 408 during operation of the resonator 400 such that the nanotube element 410 responds to the series of electrical pulses applied to the drive electrode 408 by making a series of mechanical motions at the resonance frequency of the resonator 400 application_number US 6585406 A description carbon nanotubes cnts have been shown to possess interesting electrical and mechanical properties that make them ideal for utilization as high frequency resonators in communications preferred embodiments of the present invention include the construction of individual resonators and arrays of resonators employing nanotube fabric elements made with standard cmos and soi integration techniques such resonators can be used as band pass filters for communications technology among other things a multilayered cnt fabric typically resonates in the millimeter wave length with frequencies greater than one ghz with a high q factor e g gt 2400 and low power consumption one advantage of cnt resonators compared to.