Print Email Facebook Twitter Mechanical stiffening, bistability, and bit operations in a microcantilever Title Mechanical stiffening, bistability, and bit operations in a microcantilever Author Venstra, W.J. Westra, H.J.R. Van der Zant, H.S.J. Faculty Applied Sciences Department QN/Quantum Nanoscience Date 2010-11-11 Abstract We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of microcantilevers. We demonstrate mechanical stiffening of the frequency response at large amplitudes, originating from the geometric nonlinearity. At strong driving the cantilever amplitude is bistable. We map the bistable regime as a function of drive frequency and amplitude, and suggest several applications for the bistable microcantilever, of which a mechanical memory is demonstrated. Subject cantileverselastic constantsmechanical stabilitymicromechanical devicesnonlinear dynamical systems To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5dcb113a-162a-4b49-877f-e3e36adb3eab DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3511343 Publisher American Institute of Physics ISSN 0003-6951 Source http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v97/i19/p193107_s1 Source Applied Physics Letters, 97 (19), 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2010 The Author(s)American Institute of Physics Files PDF Venstra_2010.pdf 388.88 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5dcb113a-162a-4b49-877f-e3e36adb3eab/datastream/OBJ/view