Electrostatic actuation and electromechanical switching behavior of one-dimensional nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2953-2964

  Subramanian, Arunkumar ^a,b   Alt, Andreas R ^a   Dong, Lixin ^a,c   Kratochvil, Bradley E ^a   Bolognesi, Colombo R ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electrostatic actuation; Nanoelectromechanical systems; Pull in gap; Shell engineering

Indexed keywords

1-D NANOWIRES; ACTUATION VOLTAGES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CURRENT-DRIVEN; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL SWITCHING; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FABRICATED DEVICE; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MICRO-SCALES; NANO-ASSEMBLIES; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NON-LINEARITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PULL-IN GAP; SHELL ENGINEERING; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DAMPING; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOWIRES; NEMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 70350656263     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900436x     Document Type: Article

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