Modeling the Electrostatic Actuation of Nanomechanical Pillar Dimers
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2021 With their unparalleled mass sensitivity, enabling single-molecule mass spectrometry, nanomechanical resonators have the potential to considerably improve existing sensor technology.
Andreas Kainz +3 more
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A Crawler Climbing Robot Integrating Electroadhesion and Electrostatic Actuation
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2014 Previous electroadhesive climbing robots generally employed typical electromagnetic motors, which spoiled some of the advantages of electroadhesion such as it being light, thin and flexible. To improve these, an integration of electrostatic actuation and
Hongqiang Wang +2 more
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Actuators, 2020 Nowadays, the concept of programmable matter paves the way for promising applications such as reshaping an object to test different configurations, modeling or rapid prototyping.
Romain Catry +3 more
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On the investigation of a reliable actuation control method for ohmic RF MEMS switches [PDF]
, 2011 This is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2011 ElsevierEfficient control of RF MEMS switches is a very important issue as it is correlated to main failure mechanisms ...
Nilavalan, R +3 more
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Inchworm Motors and Beyond: A Review on Cooperative Electrostatic Actuator Systems
Actuators, 2023 Having benefited from technological developments, such as surface micromachining, high-aspect-ratio silicon micromachining and ongoing miniaturization in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology, some electrostatic actuators became ...
Almothana Albukhari, Ulrich Mescheder
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Dynamic Analysis of a Micro Beam-Based Tactile Sensor Actuated by Fringing Electrostatic Fields
Micromachines, 2019 A new kind of fringing electrostatic actuation mode is developed. In this new actuation mode, the expression of fringing electrostatic force is found. The nonlinear dynamic analysis of this new actuation mode is presented by using the Method of Multiple ...
Zhichong Wang +3 more
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Low-Actuation Voltage MEMS Digital-to-Analog Converter with Parylene Spring Structures
Sensors, 2015 We propose an electrostatically-actuated microelectromechanical digital-to-analog converter (M-DAC) device with low actuation voltage. The spring structures of the silicon-based M-DAC device were monolithically fabricated using parylene-C.
Cheng-Wen Ma +4 more
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Experimental characterization of pull-in parameters for an electrostatically actuated cantilever
Applications in Engineering Science, 2020 MEMS-NEMS applications extensively use micro-nano cantilever structures as actuation system, thanks to their intrinsically simple end efficient configuration.
A. Sorrentino +3 more
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Resistive damping implementation as a method to improve controllability in stiff ohmic RF-MEMS switches [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents in detail the entire procedure of calculating the bias resistance of an ohmic RF-MEMS switch, controlled under resistive damping (charge drive technique).
Nilavalan, R, Spasos, M
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A Method to Enhance Stroke Level of a MEMS Micromirror with Repulsive Electrostatic Force
Micromachines, 2020 This paper presents a method to enhance the stroke level of a MEMS micromirror that, unlike conventional micromirrors, is actuated using a repulsive electrostatic force.
Niwit Aryal, Arezoo Emadi
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