Capacitance Based Tunable Micromechanical Resonators

We present actuators which tune the resonant frequency of micromechanical oscillators. Experimental results show resonant oscillations from 7.7% to 146% of the original resonant frequency. Numerical results substantiate these results. Two failure modes have been identified which limit

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