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We thank Andrew Cleland for helpful comments on this work. We are grateful for support from the Miba Machine Shop and Nanofabrication facility at IST Austria. This work was supported by the Austrian FWF grant P33692–N and includes a recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (DOC – No. 26088) at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.","isi":1,"publication":"Nano Letters","intvolume":"        25","user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","oa_version":"Preprint","volume":25,"date_published":"2025-02-06T00:00:00Z","publication_status":"published","publisher":"American Chemical Society","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"OA_type":"green","OA_place":"repository","external_id":{"isi":["001415246000001"],"arxiv":["2407.15314"]},"citation":{"chicago":"Puglia, Denise, Rachel H Odessey, Peter Burns, Niklas Luhmann, Silvan Schmid, and Andrew P Higginbotham. “Room Temperature, Cavity-Free Capacitive Strong Coupling to Mechanical Motion.” <i>Nano Letters</i>. 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The system only has three everyday components: AC, DC, and a fip-chip, in which\r\na metallized silicon nitride membrane is fipped on top of the device under test. This everyday\r\nelectromechanical device can be operated at low or room temperature and has 10000× lower\r\ninsertion loss than a comparable commercial quartz crystal, achieves a position imprecision\r\nmatching state-of-the-art optical interferometer, and enables remote cooling of mechanical\r\nmotion. 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