| Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 4, November 2008
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| Article Number | 48002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/48002 | |
| Published online | 11 November 2008 | |
Pull-in control in microswitches using acoustic Casimir forces
Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria - México D. F. 01000, México
Corresponding author: raul@fisica.unam.mx
Received:
23
August
2008
Accepted:
8
October
2008
In this paper we present a theoretical calculation of the acoustic Casimir pressure in a model microsystem. Unlike the quantum case, the acoustic Casimir pressure can be made attractive or repulsive depending on the frequency bandwidth of the acoustic noise. As a case study, a one-degree-of-freedom simple-lumped system in an acoustic resonant cavity is considered. We show that the frequency bandwidth of the acoustic field can be tuned to increase the stability in existing microswitch systems by selecting the sign of the force. The acoustic intensity and frequency bandwidth are introduced as two additional control parameters of the microswitch.
PACS: 85.85.+j – Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices / 43.20.-f – General linear acoustics / 43.35.-c – Ultrasonics, quantum acoustics, and physical effects of sound
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