• DocumentCode
    2395263
  • Title

    Performance Enhancement of Gap Closing Electrostatic MEMS Converters

  • Author

    Salem, Mona S. ; Salem, Marwa S. ; Zekry, A.A. ; Ragai, H.F.

  • Author_Institution
    ECE Dept., Ain Shams Univ.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    45
  • Lastpage
    47
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes new ideas to enhance the output power of the gap closing electrostatic MEMS converters. This is done by including the effect of the parallel capacitance of the converter in the output power equation. In addition the output power of the converter has increased by increasing the converter thickness
  • Keywords
    electrostatic devices; micromechanical devices; power convertors; electrostatic MEMS converters; output power equation; parallel capacitance; performance enhancement; Capacitance; Electrostatics; Equations; Fingers; Micromechanical devices; Permittivity; Power generation; Springs; Voltage; Wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, The 2006 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cairo
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0899-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348214
  • Filename
    4155231