Investigating the effect of Casimir and van der Waals attractions on the electrostatic pull-in instability of nano-actuators

Physica Scripta

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Soroush, R ^a   Koochi, A ^b   Kazemi, A S ^c   Noghrehabadi, A ^d   Haddadpour, H ^b   Abadyan, M ^e  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c DAMGHAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^e ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOMIAN DECOMPOSITION; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CASIMIR; DETACHMENT LENGTH; DISPERSION FORCE; DISTRIBUTED-PARAMETER MODEL; FRINGING FIELDS; INITIAL GAP; MAXIMUM VALUES; NANOACTUATORS; PULL-IN; PULL-IN INSTABILITY; PULL-IN VOLTAGE; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; STRESS RESULTANTS; SUBMICROMETERS; VAN DER WAALS; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION;

ACTUATORS; DISPERSIONS; STABILITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 78149363758     PISSN: 00318949     EISSN: 14024896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/82/04/045801     Document Type: Article

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