• DocumentCode
    1895762
  • Title

    The computation of electrostatic forces in MEMS: spatial method vs. material method

  • Author

    Zeng, Kaiping ; Korvink, Jan G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Germany
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    18-20 April 2005
  • Firstpage
    202
  • Lastpage
    206
  • Abstract
    In this work, we present a so-called material method for the computation of electrostatic force in MEMS and compare it with the commonly-used spatial method. Numerical results are presented for a fixed-free beam structure.
  • Keywords
    beams (structures); computational electromagnetics; electrostatics; micromechanical devices; MEMS; computational electromagnetics; electrostatic forces; fixed-free beam structure; material method; micromechanical devices; spatial method; Computational geometry; Computational modeling; Computer science; Electrodynamics; Electrostatics; Equations; Integrated circuit technology; Laboratories; Materials science and technology; Micromechanical devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems, 2005. EuroSimE 2005. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9062-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ESIME.2005.1502801
  • Filename
    1502801