The impetus of this study is to investigate the chaotic behavior of a size-dependent nano-beam with double-sided electrostatic actuation, incorporating surface energy effect and intermolecular interactions. The geometrically nonlinear beam model is based on Euler-Bernoulli beam assumption. The influence of the small-scale and the surface energy effect are modeled by implementing the consistent ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the workload and size the nursing team using the scales TISS-28 and NEMS in a pediatric intensive care unit. METHODS An observational prospective study with a quantitative approach was conducted at the pediatric intensive care unit of a university hospital from Jan 1st, 2009 to Dec 31st, 2009. All children who remained hospitalized for more than 8 hours were included, wi...

Miniaturized gas chromatography (GC) systems can provide fast, quantitative analysis of chemical vapors in an ultrasmall package. We describe a chemical sensor technology based on resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) mass detectors that provides the speed, sensitivity, specificity, and size required by the microscale GC paradigm. Such NEMS sensors have demonstrated detection of subpart...

This article investigates the size dependent on piezoelectrically layered perforated nanobeams embedded in an elastic foundation considering material Poisson’s ratio and flexoelectricity effects. The composite beam is composed of a regularly squared cut-out core with two piezoelectric face sheet layers. An analytical geometrical model adopted to obtain equivalent variables core. To capture effe...

Owing to larger surface area in micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), surface forces such as adhesion, friction, and meniscus and viscous drag forces become large when compared with inertial and electromagnetic forces. There is a need to develop lubricants and identify lubrication methods that are suitable for MEMS/NEMS. For BioMEMS/BioNEMS, adhesion between biological molecular laye...

We report a versatile all optical technique to excite and read-out a distributed nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) array. The NEMS array is driven by a distributed, intensity modulated optical pump through the photothermal effect. The ensuing vibrational response of the array is multiplexed onto a single probe beam in the form of a high frequency phase modulation. The phase modulation is opt...

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMSs) are systems with characteristic dimensions of a few nanometers. By exploiting nanoscale effects, NEMSs present interesting and unique characteristics, which deviate greatly from their predecessor microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs). For instance, NEMSbased devices can have fundamental frequencies in the microwave range (B100GH) (Rueckes et al. 2000); mec...

The oscillatory dynamics of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) is at the heart many emerging applications in nanotechnology. For common NEMS, such as beams and strings, formulated using a dissipationless wave equation derived from elasticity. Under harmonic ansatz, gives an undamped free vibration equation; solving this with proper boundary conditions provides eigenfunctions familiar standing...

Owing to their applications in devices such as electromechanical sensors, actuators and nanogenerators, the consideration of size-dependent properties response composites is great importance. In this study, a closed-form solution based on linear piezoelectricity, Kirchhoff’s plate theory Navier’s was developed, envisage behaviors hybrid graphene-reinforced piezoelectric composite (GRPC) plates,...