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Volume 125, Number 2, January 2019
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| Article Number | 20011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/125/20011 | |
| Published online | 25 February 2019 | |
Nonlinear pull-in instability of suspended graphene-based sensors
State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - 200240 Shanghai, China
Received: 25 October 2018
Accepted: 22 January 2019
Applying an external electric field on a graphene surface is an important way to improve the molecular adsorption capability of graphene, thus pull-in instability of suspended graphene sensors becomes a critical issue. Incorporating residual built-in strains, fringing fields and intermolecular forces, an electromechanical model is developed to characterize the nonlinear pull-in behaviors of suspended graphene-based sensors. The obtained results of pull-in voltages agree well with the reported experimental data. Moreover, the fracture failure of graphene sensors is initially compared to the pull-in failure. To avoid pull-in instability and fracture failure, critical formulas of axial pre-stress for zigzag-oriented and armchair-oriented graphene sensors are derived. It is demonstrated that axial pre-stress is an effective and controllable way to improve the pull-in stability of graphene sensors.
PACS: 03.65.Sq – Semiclassical theories and applications / 07.10.Cm – Micromechanical devices and systems / 85.85.+j – Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices
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