Positive deflection of the sensory hair bundle of a vertebrate hair cell opens transduction channels to depolarize the cell. In bullfrog saccular hair cells, there is a subsequent adaptation process, whereby the proportion of transduction channels that are open, and thus the receptor current, declines toward the resting value. This occurs because the sensitivity curve, relating open probability...

In this paper, we show how surface-micromachined buckled cantilevers can be used to construct out-of-plane structures. We include the relevant theory necessary to predict the height and angle of plates attached to buckled cantilevers, as well as the mechanical stresses involved in assembly. These platforms can be assembled to any angle between 0◦ and 90◦ with respect to the substrate by changin...

Abstract In this paper, the large deflection problem of axisymmetric isotropic elastic membranes subjected to composite loads is studied. The Hencky transformation extended and general solution under obtained. given in different forms values loads. obtained results numerical characters can be applied practice.