Research Article

Modeling the Structural-Thermal-Electrical Coupling in an Electrostatically Actuated MEMS Switch and Its Impact on the Switch Stability

Figure 2

(a) The switch static deflection versus the applied DC voltage using the analytical model (solid blue line) and the finite element model (circles). (b) The FE model in ANSYS.
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