On a tunable bistable MEMS-theory and experiment

By M. Saif. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2000

216 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/815ce5a8ef65a386428abcfdc67cba31c649fbc9

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Yin Zhang
2. B. Ilic
3. Slava Krylov
4. Nathan D. Masters
5. Larry L. Howell
6. Stella Lulinsky
7. Romesh C. Batra
8. Makoto Ohsaki

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Yin Zhang
2. B. Ilic
3. Slava Krylov
4. Nathan D. Masters
5. Larry L. Howell
6. Stella Lulinsky
7. Romesh C. Batra

Citations in the corpus

• Snap-Through and Pull-In Instabilities of an Arch-Shaped Beam Under an Electrostatic Loading (2007, background): “In the aforementioned archshaped or V-shaped structures, the transverse force exerted on those structures is either mechanical [1]–[16], [18], [19], [22], [23], thermal [17], optical [20], [21], or electromagnetic [24].”
• A self-retracting fully compliant bistable micromechanism (2003, background): “Recently Saif presented a beam buckled in-plane—and switched between stable states—by electrostatic actuation [3].”
• Nonlinear Dynamics of MEMS Arches Under Harmonic Electrostatic Actuation (2010, unknown): “tic [4], [11]–[13], and parallel-plate capacitive [2], [14]–[18].”
• Bistability of curved microbeams actuated by fringing electrostatic fields (2011, background): “Another group of devices are pre-buckled beams where the initial curvature necessary for bistability is achieved by application of an axial force that exceeds the critical buckling force [1, 9, 10, 12–14, 21, 23–26].”