Periodic solutions and the avoidance of pull-in instability in nonautonomous microelectromechanical systems

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Abstract: We study periodic solutions of a one-degree of freedom micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) with a parallel-plate capacitor under T--periodic electrostatic forcing. We obtain analytical results concerning the existence of T periodic solutions of the problem in the case of arbitrary nonlinear restoring force, as well as when the moving plate is attached to a spring fabricated using graphene. We then demonstrate numerically on a T periodic Poincar{'e} map of the flow that these solutions are generally locally stable with large "islands" of initial conditions around them, within which the pull-in stability is completely avoided. We also demonstrate graphically on the Poincar{'e} map that stable periodic solutions with higher period nT,n>1 also exist, for wide parameter ranges, with large "islands" of bounded motion around them, within which all initial conditions avoid the pull--in instability, thus helping us significantly increase the domain of safe operation of these MEMS models.









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