TY - GEN
T1 - MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF A TUNABLE BISTABLE MEMS FOR OPTO-MECHANICAL COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC ELEMENTS
AU - Saif, M. A.Taher
AU - Miller, Norm R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1999 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - We present the design, analysis, and testing of a tunable bi-stable MEMS device that changes state when subjected to a threshold force in the range of pN to μN. It consumes power during change of state, but not while maintaining a state. Depending on the design and tuning, the state change can be initiated by even a moderate power laser beam that generates force by the impacts of its photons. The device presents itself as a potential bistable multivibrator (flip-flop), as well as the basic component of combinational logic elements, such as AND and OR gates, thus opening the door for low power digital opto-mechanical computing in normal to harsh environments. Several designs of the combinational logic elements are provided for optomechanical computing. In addition to bi-stability, the device shows a rich and complex set of dynamical behavior (e.g., chaotic response) when subjected to certain parametric excitations.
AB - We present the design, analysis, and testing of a tunable bi-stable MEMS device that changes state when subjected to a threshold force in the range of pN to μN. It consumes power during change of state, but not while maintaining a state. Depending on the design and tuning, the state change can be initiated by even a moderate power laser beam that generates force by the impacts of its photons. The device presents itself as a potential bistable multivibrator (flip-flop), as well as the basic component of combinational logic elements, such as AND and OR gates, thus opening the door for low power digital opto-mechanical computing in normal to harsh environments. Several designs of the combinational logic elements are provided for optomechanical computing. In addition to bi-stability, the device shows a rich and complex set of dynamical behavior (e.g., chaotic response) when subjected to certain parametric excitations.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE1999-0242
DO - 10.1115/IMECE1999-0242
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85122664243
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 31
EP - 36
BT - Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1999
Y2 - 14 November 1999 through 19 November 1999
ER -