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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 124, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.046101
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- European COSTAction: Reversible Computation-Extending Horizons of Computing [IC 1405]
- Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [EEEAG-115E833]
- TUBA
- Science Academy, Turkey
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Buckling of mechanical structures results in bistable states with spatial separation, a feature desirable for sensing, shape configuration, and mechanical computation. Although different approaches have been developed to access buckling at microscopic scales, such as heating or prestressing beams, little attention has been paid so far to dynamically control all the parameters critical for the bifurcation-the compressive stress and the lateral force on the beam. Here, we develop an all-electrostatic architecture to control the compressive force, as well as the direction and amount of buckling, without significant heat generation on micro- or nanostructures. With this architecture, we demonstrated fundamental aspects of device function and dynamics. By applying voltages at any of the digital electronics standards, we have controlled the direction of buckling. Lateral deflections as large as 12% of the beam length were achieved. By modulating the compressive stress and lateral electrostatic force acting on the beam, we tuned the potential energy barrier between the postbifurcation stable states and characterized snap-through transitions between these states. The proposed architecture opens avenues for further studies in actuators, shape-shifting devices, thermodynamics of information, and dynamical chaos.
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