Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) are coupled electro-mechanical microsystems used in many different sensing and actuation applications. The mechanical characteristics of the microsystem depend in large part to the choice of material and microfabrication process. In microsystems where there ar
Characterization and modeling of electro-thermal MEMS structures
✍ Scribed by Péter Gábor Szabó; Vladimír Székely
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 576 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0946-7076
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