Pull-in dynamics of overdamped microbeams

We study the dynamics of MEMS microbeams undergoing electrostatic pull-in. At DC voltages close to the pull-in voltage, experiments and numerical simulations have reported `bottleneck' behaviour in which the transient dynamics slow down considerably. This slowing down is highly sensitive to ext...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gomez, M, Vella, D, Moulton, D
Format: Journal article
Published: IOP Publishing 2018