Casimir – TechConnect Briefs

Novel Nanoelectromechanical Relay Design Procedure for Logic and Memory Applications

Rottenberg X., Rochus V., Jansen R., Ramezani M., Severi S., Witvrouw A., Tilmans H.A.C., IMEC, BE

NanoElectroMechanical Structures/Systems (NEMS) have been the focus of an increasing attention from researchers in recent years for the alternative they offer to conventional CMOS for application in logics, memory and in general digital circuitry. Scaled [...]

Long-Range Interactions in Quasi-One Dimensional Cylindrical Structures

Tatur K., Woods L.M., University of South Florida, US

Casimir forces originating from vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields are of increasing importance in many scientific and technological areas. The manifestations of these long-range forces at the nanoscale have led to the need of [...]

Stability of micro and nano devices actuated by Casimir forces

Hernández J., Esquivel-Sirvent R., Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, MX

The effect of the Casimir force in micro and nano electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) is examined taking fully into account the dielectric properties of the materials as well as the finite thickness of movable elements in [...]

Influence of the Casimir force on the static and dynamic behavior of electrostatically driven micromechanical resonators

Stoffels S., Fernández L.J., Puers R., Tilmans H.A.C., IMEC, BE

Nowadays, electrostatically driven high frequency micromechanical resonators are being developed in which the gap spacing is minimized in order to achieve sufficiently high electromechanical coupling. Typical gap spacings for resonators operated close to a GHz [...]