Electrostatic Excitation for the Force Amplification of Microcantilever Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2011 This paper describes an electrostatic excited microcantilever sensor operating in static mode that is more sensitive than traditional microcantilevers.
Salman Ebrahimi-Nejad +2 more
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A Resonant Pressure Microsensor Based on Double-Ended Tuning Fork and Electrostatic Excitation/Piezoresistive Detection [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 This paper presents a resonant pressure microsensor relying on electrostatic excitation and piezoresistive detection where two double-ended tuning forks were used as resonators, enabling differential outputs.
Xiaoqing Shi +6 more
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Minimizing electrostatic interactions from piezoresponse force microscopy via capacitive excitation
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2020 Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as one of the most powerful techniques to probe ferroelectric materials at the nanoscale, yet it has been increasingly recognized that piezoresponse measured by PFM is often influenced by electrostatic ...
Qingfeng Zhu +3 more
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Excitation of VLF quasi-electrostatic oscillations in the ionospheric plasma [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 1996 A numerical solution of the dispersion equation for electromagnetic waves in a hot magnetized collisionless plasma has shown that, in a current-free ionospheric plasma, the distortion of the electron distribution function reproducing the downward flow
B. Lundin +5 more
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Parametric anti-phase excitation of resonant MEMS mirrors for fast start-up [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis paper analyzes anti-phase parametric excitation for a resonant MEMS mirror by independently driving two out-of-plane electrostatic comb-drive actuators positioned at the left and right sides of the MEMS mirror, enabling a fast and reliable start-up ...
Fabian Reier +4 more
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Research on a Feedthrough Suppression Scheme for MEMS Gyroscopes Based on Mixed-Frequency Excitation Signals [PDF]
MicromachinesFeedthrough interference is inevitably introduced in MEMS gyroscopes due to non-ideal factors such as circuit layout design and fabrication processes, exerting non-negligible impacts on gyroscope performance. This study proposes a feedthrough suppression
Xuhui Chen +6 more
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Photonic Excitation of a Micromechanical Cantilever in Electrostatic Fields [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2020 We present a specific near-field configuration where an electrostatic force gradient is found to strongly enhance the optomechanical driving of an atomic force microscope cantilever sensor. It is shown that incident photons generate a photothermal effect that couples with electrostatic fields even at tip-surface separations as large as several ...
Barsella, A. +8 more
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Electrostatic Tuning of Cellular Excitability [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2010 Voltage-gated ion channels regulate the electric activity of excitable tissues, such as the heart and brain. Therefore, treatment for conditions of disturbed excitability is often based on drugs that target ion channels. In this study of a voltage-gated K channel, we propose what we believe to be a novel pharmacological mechanism for how to regulate ...
Börjesson, Sara +3 more
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Electrostatic Plasma Wave Excitations at the Interplanetary Shocks
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Abstract Over the last few decades, different types of plasma waves (e.g., the ion acoustic waves (IAWs), electrostatic solitary waves, upper/lower hybrid waves, and Langmuir waves) have been observed in the upstream, downstream, and ramp regions of the collisionless interplanetary (IP) shocks.
Manpreet Singh +2 more
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Induction effects on the absorption maxima of photoreceptor proteins
Biophysics and Physicobiology, 2023 Multiscale simulations have been established as a powerful tool to calculate and predict excitation energies in complex systems such as photoreceptor proteins.
Jonathan R. Church +2 more
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