Approximating the effect of the Casimir force on the instability of electrostatic nano-cantilevers

Physica Scripta

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Abadyan, Mohamadreza ^a   Novinzadeh, Alireza ^b   Kazemi, Asiehsadat ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c DAMGHAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CANTILEVER TIP; CASIMIR FORCE; COMPUTABLE COMPONENTS; CONVERGENT SERIES; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTROSTATIC MICROACTUATORS; HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD; NANO SCALE; NANOACTUATORS; NONLINEAR CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PULL-IN INSTABILITY; PULL-IN VOLTAGE;

ACTUATORS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; ELECTROSTATICS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 75649100114     PISSN: 00318949     EISSN: 14024896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/81/01/015801     Document Type: Article

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