Out-of-plane electrothermally actuated bistable buckled microbridge actuator

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 596-599

  Michael, A ^a   Yu, K ^a   Mackenzie, M ^a   Kwok, C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); STIFFNESS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

ACTUATION STEPS; BUCKLED SHAPE MODEL; MICROBRIDGE ACTUATORS; TORSIONAL STIFFNESS;

MICROACTUATORS;

EID: 33748763102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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