All Articles tagged actuation
- Ceramics Conference Papers
September 01, 2013 EDT Thin membranes are widely used for tunable micro-lenses, where the membrane, usually made from polymers, defines the surface of a subjacent liquid. If the liquid is pressurized, the membrane deflects...
- High Temperature Conference Papers
January 01, 2013 EDT A novel micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) based non-volatile memory (NVM) is proposed. The storage principle is based on Lorentz’s transduction, utilizing long-range motion of a non-anchored element which has current carrying sliding...
- Ceramics Conference Papers
September 01, 2012 EDT The effect of clamping a piezoelectric layer to a relatively stiff substrate results in smaller displacements in comparison to substrate-free structures. To ensure a sufficient amount of the bending of...
- Device Packaging Conference Presentations
January 01, 2012 EDT What is presented: We present a practical MEMS metrology technology that can be used to extract system stiffness, mass, damping, and excitation force after a MEMS is packaged. Presently the...
- Device Packaging Conference Presentations
January 01, 2011 EDT Addressable switch arrays are widely used in telecommunication, radar and satellite systems for many applications, such as switch network controlling, modularity and expansion. The existing method to achieve addressability of...