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A tunable mechanical resonator

Imed Zine-El-Abidine and Peng Yang

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This paper presents a tunable comb resonator by mechanically altering the suspension configuration to change its spring constant. The change of the stiffness of the resonator is achieved using electrostatic MEMS actuators. The MEMS actuators mechanically change the length of the beams to increase their spring constant and therefore the resonant frequency. The resonant frequency changed from the original value of 10.8 kHz to 17.6 kHz and 21.4 kHz depending on the spring configuration. The tunable mechanical resonator has been designed numerically using Coventorware and validated with experimental characterization. The device is built using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process.


PACS

85.85.+j Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices

07.07.Tw Servo and control equipment; robots

Subjects

Electronics and devices

Instrumentation and measurement

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2009)

Received 23 July 2009, in final form 2 September 2009

Published 20 October 2009



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