Pull-in instability as an inherently nonlinear and crucial effect continues to become
increasingly important for the design of electrostatic MEMS and NEMS devices and ever …

Pull-in instability, as an inherent nonlinear problem, continues to become an increasingly
important and interesting topic in the design of electrostatic Nano/Micro-electromechanical …

Commercially manufactured near-infrared (NIR) instruments became available about 50
years ago. While they have been designed for laboratory use in a controlled environment …

The development of manufacturing tools and processes capable of precisely positioning and
manipulating nanoscale components and materials is still in its embryonic stage …

In this paper, a novel MEMS accelerometer with tuned quasi-zero stiffness stabilized and
operated in a closed-loop is proposed. By using the electrostatic softening effect of the …

This study is devoted to providing precise predictions of the dc dynamic pull-in voltages of a
clamped–clamped micro-beam based on a continuous model. A pull-in phenomenon occurs …

Pull-in instability of the electrostatic microstructures is a common undesirable phenomenon
which implies the loss of reliability of micro-electromechanical systems. Therefore, it is …

In this article, a robust switching PID controller coupled to a feedforward compensator is
designed for set-point regulation of an electrostatic micro-actuator. The nonlinear model of …

A learning control algorithm is presented that reduces the closing time of a radio-frequency
microelectromechanical systems switch by minimizing bounce while maintaining robustness …

The pull-in time (tpi) of electrostatically actuated parallel-plate microstructures enables the
realization of a high-sensitivity accelerometer that uses time measurement as the …