In this paper, a methodology is proposed for expediting the coupled electro-mechanical finite element modeling of electrostatically actuated MEMS. The proposed methodology eliminates the need for repeated finite element meshing and subsequent electrostatic modeling of the device during mechanical deformation. We achieve this by using an approximation of the charge density on the movable electro...

Nonlinear space-charge effects play an important role in emittance growth in the production of kA electron bunches with a bunch length much smaller than the bunch diameter. We propose a scheme employing the radial third-order component of an electrostatic acceleration field, to fully compensate the nonlinear space-charge effects. This results in minimal transverse root-mean-square emittance. Th...

Integration of electronic and photonic devices, especially chip-scale integration, is dramatically impacting telecommunication, computing, and sensing technologies (Dalton et. al., 2010; Dalton & Benight, 2011; Benight et. al., 2009). For organic electronics and photonics, control of molecular order is crucial for effective device performance. For organic photonics, formation of molecular aggre...

Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to study the translocation of single-stranded (ss)-DNA through the nanoscale gap between the nanoscale electrodes of a proposed genomic sequencing device. Using a fixed gap width between the electrodes and a small sample segment of ss-DNA as initial starting points in this project, the effect of applied electric fields on translocation velocity...

Interface dynamics of post contact states in regularized models of electrostatic-elastic interactions are analyzed. A canonical setting for our investigations is the field of MicroElectromechanical Systems (MEMS) in which flexible elastic structures may come into physical contact due to applied Coulomb forces. We study the dynamic features of a recently derived regularized model (A.E. Lindsay e...

Rational control over the morphology and the functional properties of inorganic nanostructures has been a long-standing goal in the development of bottom-up device fabrication processes. We report that the geometry of hydrothermally grown zinc oxide nanowires can be tuned from platelets to needles, covering more than three orders of magnitude in aspect ratio (~0.1-100). We introduce a classical...

This paper introduces a novel design for a hybrid micromachined contactless suspension, whose operation is based on combining electromagnetic inductive and electrostatic actuation. Wirebonded microcoils provide the electromagnetic inductive actuation, while electrodes patterned on a Si wafer provide electrostatic control. The coil structure and the electrode structure are independently designed...

Two-dimensional finite element simulations of electrostatic dopant potentials in parallel-sided semiconductor specimens that contain p-n junctions are used to assess the effect of the electrical state of the surface of a thin specimen on projected potentials measured using off-axis electron holography in the transmission electron microscope. For a specimen that is constrained to have an equipot...

We present a simple technique to produce active Qswitching in various types of fiber amplifiers by active integration of an electrostatic actuated deformable metallic micro-mirror. The optical MEMS (MOEMS) device acts as one of the laser cavity reflectors and, at the same time, as switching/ modulator element. We aim to obtain laser systems emitting short, high-power pulses and having variable ...

We performed several measurements of anomalous forces on a dielectric rotor under electrostatic operation conditions. The device operated constant and intense angular velocity for each high voltage applied. were made in similar way to an analogue magnetic gyroscope, by considering clockwise counterclockwise rotations. found that there is significant weight reduction the case, one order magnitud...