Micromachined resonators: A review

R Abdolvand, B Bahreyni, JEY Lee, F Nabki - Micromachines, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper is a review of the remarkable progress that has been made during the past few
decades in design, modeling, and fabrication of micromachined resonators. Although micro …

Nonlinear dynamics and its applications in micro-and nanoresonators

JF Rhoads, SW Shaw, KL Turner - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This review provides a summary of work on the resonant nonlinear dynamics of micro-and
nanoelectromechanical systems. This research area, which has been active for …

Nonlinear dynamics of nanomechanical beam resonators: improving the performance of NEMS-based sensors

N Kacem, S Hentz, D Pinto, B Reig, V Nguyen - Nanotechnology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to compensate for the loss of performance when scaling resonant sensors down to
NEMS, it proves extremely useful to study the behavior of resonators up to very high …

Computational and quasi-analytical models for non-linear vibrations of resonant MEMS and NEMS sensors

N Kacem, S Baguet, S Hentz, R Dufour - International journal of non-linear …, 2011 - Elsevier
Large-amplitude non-linear vibrations of micro-and nano-electromechanical resonant
sensors around their primary resonance are investigated. A comprehensive multiphysics …

Bifurcation topology tuning of a mixed behavior in nonlinear micromechanical resonators

N Kacem, S Hentz - Applied Physics Letters, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We report the experimental observation of a four-bifurcation-point (or five possible
amplitudes for a given frequency) behavior of electrostatically actuated micromechanical …

Nonlinearity reduction in disk resonator gyroscopes based on the vibration amplification effect

Q Li, D Xiao, Y Xu, M Zhuo, X Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports a novel method to reduce the electrostatic and capacitive nonlinearities
in a disk resonator gyroscope (DRG) and to further improve its ultimate oscillation amplitude …

Multifrequency pierce oscillators based on piezoelectric AlN contour-mode MEMS technology

C Zuo, N Sinha, J Van der Spiegel… - Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on the first demonstration of multifrequency (176-, 222-, 307-, and 482-
MHz) oscillators based on the piezoelectric AlN contour-mode microelectromechanical …

Coulomb-actuated microbeams revisited: experimental and numerical modal decomposition of the saddle-node bifurcation

A Melnikov, HAG Schenk, JM Monsalve… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrostatic micromechanical actuators have numerous applications in science and
technology. In many applications, they are operated in a narrow frequency range close to …

Nonlinear dynamics and its applications in micro-and nanoresonators

JF Rhoads, SW Shaw… - Dynamic systems …, 2008 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This review provides a summary of the work completed to date on the nonlinear dynamics of
resonant micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS). This research area …

Zero-dispersion point in curved micro-mechanical beams

S Rosenberg, O Shoshani - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
In doubly clamped curved mechanical beams, there are inherent hardening and softening
nonlinearities. Thus, their frequency of oscillation is a non-monotonic function of the energy …