Everyday electromechanics: Capacitive strong coupling to mechanical motion

We introduce a new all-electric platform, that strong couples light to mechanical motion by ensuring that the external environmental coupling dominates over internal mechanical dissipation. The system only has three everyday components: AC, DC, and a fip-chip, in which a metallized silicon nitride membrane is fipped on top of the device under test. This everyday electromechanical device can be operated at low or room temperature and has 10000× lower insertion loss than a comparable commercial quartz crystal, achieves a position imprecision matching state-of-the-art optical interferometer, and enables remote cooling of mechanical motion. The spatial properties of higher order mechanical modes are a promising feature for reconstructing unknown charge distributions.