Over the last couple of decades, the advancement in Microelectromechanical System
(MEMS) devices is highly demanded for integrating the economically miniaturized sensors …

Bistable mechanical systems having two local minima of potential energy can rest in either
of the two stable equilibrium states in the absence of external loadings. A snap‐through …

Pull-in instability as an inherently nonlinear and crucial effect continues to become
increasingly important for the design of electrostatic MEMS and NEMS devices and ever …

The ability to control mechanical motion with optical forces has made it possible to cool
mechanical resonators to their quantum ground states. The same techniques can also be …

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic behavior of clamped–clamped micromachined
arches when actuated by a small DC electrostatic load superimposed to an AC harmonic …

Nonlinear elastic effects play an important role in the dynamics of microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS). A Duffing oscillator is widely used as an archetypical model of mechanical …

Electrostatic-driven microelectromechanical systems devices, in most cases, consist of
couplings of such energy domains as electromechanics, optical electricity, thermoelectricity …

Common quasi-static electrostatic micro actuators have significant limitations in deflection
due to electrode separation and unstable drive regions. State-of-the-art electrostatic …

Snap‐through instability has been widely leveraged in metamaterials to attain non‐
monotonic responses for a specific subset of applications where conventional monotonic …

We demonstrate the passive control of viscous flow in a channel by using an elastic arch
embedded in the flow. Depending on the fluid flux, the arch may “snap” between two states …