Surface and thermal effects on the pull-in behavior of doubly-clamped graphene nanoribbons under electrostatic and casimir loads

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Rokni, Hossein ^a   Lu, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Electrostatic nanoactuator; Graphene nanoribbon; Pull in voltage

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-FORM ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EULER BERNOULLI BEAM THEORY; FREDHOLM INTEGRAL EQUATION OF THE FIRST KIND; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS (GNRS); NANOACTUATORS; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; PULL-IN VOLTAGE;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; GRAPHENE; MODELS; SURFACE TENSION;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84887027174     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: 15289036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4023683     Document Type: Article

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