seed purification is one of the important agricultural processes to obtain high quality seeds. using modern technologies help producers to do this process with higher precision and accuracy. in order to separate seed impurities, a separation machine called tribo-aero-electrostatic separator was designed. the machine was evaluated by separating impurities of flixweed (descuriania sophia). primar...

We report the design of a monolithic piezoelectrically actuated microelectromechanical tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). The main advantages of piezoelectric actuation compared with conventional capacitive techniques are improved wavelength control, reduced external and tilt losses, and lower power supply voltages. The details of the piezoelectric actuation scheme for a 98...

The differential electrostatic space accelerometer is an equivalence principle (EP) experiment instrument proposed to operate onboard China's space station in the 2020s. It is designed to compare the spin-spin interaction between two rotating extended bodies and the Earth to a precision of 10(-12), which is five orders of magnitude better than terrestrial experiment results to date. To achieve ...

This paper describes the application of a novel band-pass sliding mode control (SMC) to the driving mode of MEMS-based resonators and resonant sensors (e.g. vibrating gyroscopes). The proposed technique relies on binary electrostatic actuation of the movable mass, dependent on the dynamics of the sliding/switching surface, in such a way that the generated actuation tracks possible changes in th...

An electrostatic-spray ionization (ESTASI) method has been used for mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of samples deposited in or on an insulating substrate. The ionization is induced by a capacitive coupling between an electrode and the sample. In practice, a metallic electrode is placed close to but not in direct contact with the sample. Upon application of a high voltage pulse to the electrode,...

In this brief a new low actuation voltage RF MEMS switch is presented which can be integrated and controlled with available CMOS technologies. Despite the advantages in the design of RF MEMS switches designing a low actuation voltage RF MEMS switch is still a challenging task. To overcome this problem, a small size RF MEMS switch utilizing a moving plate with multiple holes supported by a low s...

A non-linear analysis of nanotube based nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) is presented. Singly and doubly clamped nanotubes under electrostatic actuation are examined by solving nonlinear elastic equations. The analysis emphasizes the importance of nonlinear effects, such as finite kinematics (i.e. large deformations) and charge concentrations at the tip of singly clamped nanotubes, in the ...

Electrostatic force measurement at the micro/nano scale is of great significance in science and engineering. In this paper, a reasonable way of applying voltage is put forward by taking an electrostatic chuck in a real integrated circuit manufacturing process as a sample, applying voltage in the probe and the sample electrode, respectively, and comparing the measurement effect of the probe osci...

In this paper a nonlinear analysis of nanotube based nano-electromechanical systems is reported. Assuming continuum mechanics, the complete nonlinear equation of the elastic line of the nanotube is derived and then numerically solved. In particular, we study singly and doubly clamped nanotubes under electrostatic actuation. The analysis emphasizes the importance of nonlinear kinematics effects ...

Nano-electro-mechanical(NEM) relay technology has been proposed efficiently for ultra-lowpower digital integrated circuit applications [1], [2]. This is because the relay is an ideal switch, and that it exhibits abrupt on/off switching behavior and zero offstate leakage current (IOFF), so that its operating voltage (VDD) can be reduced to be close to zero, in principle. Hence, NEM relay technol...