Pull-In Effect of Suspended Microchannel Resonator Sensor Subjected to Electrostatic Actuation
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State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Academic Editor: Stefano Mariani
Sensors 2017, 17(1), 114; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17010114
Received: 21 November 2016
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Revised: 4 January 2017
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Accepted: 4 January 2017
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Published: 8 January 2017
(This article belongs to the Collection Modeling, Testing and Reliability Issues in MEMS Engineering)
In this article, the pull-in instability and dynamic characteristics of electrostatically actuated suspended microchannel resonators are studied. A theoretical model is presented to describe the pull-in effect of suspended microchannel resonators by considering the electrostatic field and the internal fluid. The results indicate that the system is subjected to both the pull-in instability and the flutter. The former is induced by the applied voltage which exceeds the pull-in value while the latter occurs as the velocity of steady flow get closer to the critical velocity. The statically and dynamically stable regions are presented by thoroughly studying the two forms of instability. It is demonstrated that the steady flow can remarkably extend the dynamic stable range of pull-in while the applied voltage slightly decreases the critical velocity. It is also shown that the dc voltage and the steady flow can adjust the resonant frequency while the ac voltage can modulate the vibrational amplitude of the resonator.
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Keywords:
MEMS; suspended microchannel resonators; electrostatic actuation; internal fluid flow; instability; dynamics
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Yan, H.; Zhang, W.-M.; Jiang, H.-M.; Hu, K.-M. Pull-In Effect of Suspended Microchannel Resonator Sensor Subjected to Electrostatic Actuation. Sensors 2017, 17, 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17010114
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Yan H, Zhang W-M, Jiang H-M, Hu K-M. Pull-In Effect of Suspended Microchannel Resonator Sensor Subjected to Electrostatic Actuation. Sensors. 2017; 17(1):114. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17010114
Chicago/Turabian StyleYan, Han, Wen-Ming Zhang, Hui-Ming Jiang, and Kai-Ming Hu. 2017. "Pull-In Effect of Suspended Microchannel Resonator Sensor Subjected to Electrostatic Actuation" Sensors 17, no. 1: 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17010114
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