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Tunable mechanical coupling between driven microelectromechanical resonators

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Gerard J. Verbiest *
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Da Xu
M
Matthias Goldsche
T
Tymofiy Khodkov
S
Shabir Barzanjeh
N
Nils von den Driesch
D
Dan Buca
C
Christoph Stampfer
DOI:10.1063/1.4964122delete
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We present a microelectromechanical system, in which a silicon beam is attached to a comb-drive actuator, which is used to tune the tension in the silicon beam and thus its resonance frequency. By measuring the resonance frequencies of the system, we show that the comb-drive actuator and the silicon beam behave as two strongly coupled resonators. Interestingly, the effective coupling rate (similar to 1.5 MHz) is tunable with the comb-drive actuator (+10%) as well as with a side-gate (-10%) placed close to the silicon beam. In contrast, the effective spring constant of the system is insensitive to either of them and changes only by +/- 0.5%. Finally, we show that the comb-drive actuator can be used to switch between different coupling rates with a frequency of at least 10 kHz. Published by AIP Publishing.
Keywords:
COMB-DRIVE
ELECTROMECHANICAL OSCILLATOR
NANOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS
BANDPASS-FILTERS
BISTABLE MEMS
ACTUATION
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Applied Physics Letters cover
Applied Physics Letters
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RWTH Aachen University
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