INDEX

Acceleration

Accelerometer

closed-loop

force-balanced

open-loop

electrostatic

electrostatic parallel-plate

force-balanced electrostatic

symmetric

Acoustic wave

Active element

Alignment mark

Ammonia

Ampere’s law

Analogy

between macro- and micro-fabrications

between potential energies

between thermal and electric problems

Angular displacement

of composite cantilever beams

of torsional actuator

Angular gradient operator

Approximation of gap-closing actuators

Argon

Armature

Arsine

Ashing

Bandwidth

of low-pass filter

Beam equation

including geometric nonlinearity

Bending modulus

Biharmonic operator

Bimetallic actuator

with varying temperature

bioMEMS

Boltzmann’s constant

Breakdown

electric

Buckingham’s π-theorem

Buckling

Buckling mode

of fixed-fixed beams

Bulk micromachining

C4F8

Cantilever

Cantilever beam

Cantilever beam actuator

Capacitance

of cantilever beam actuator

of fixed-fixed beam actuator

of parallel plate actuators

of parallel plates

Capacitor

Cardano’s formula

Castigliano’s theorem

Centrifugal force

Characteristic length

Characteristics of cubic force

Charge

Chemical vapor deposition.

Closed-form solution

Coefficient of thermal expansion

Co-energy

Comb drive

Comb drive actuator

Complementary energy

for magnetic field

stored in a capacitor

Complementary error function

Compliance

of a folded beam, in-plane motion

of a folded beam, out-of-plane motion

of a L-shaped beam, in-plane motion

of a L-shaped beam, out-of-plane motion

of a straight beam, in-plane motion

of a straight beam, out-of-plane motion

Compliance transformation

Composite beam

Conduction ...

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