Mechanical stiffening, bistability, and bit operations in a microcantilever

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Venstra, Warner J ^a   Westra, Hidde J R ^a   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-STABILITY; BISTABLES; BIT-OPERATIONS; GEOMETRIC NON-LINEARITY; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MECHANICAL MEMORY; MICRO-CANTILEVERS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 78249272690     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3511343     Document Type: Article

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