Abstract

We present a tunable broadband shoaling mechanical amplifier and a method to extend its operation near the electrostatic pull-in instability. The model has been verified experimentally on a vacuum encapsulated silicon MEMS device. We show that by adding an appropriate mechanical compensation spring, the amplifier can be operated near the pull-in instability in a quasi-linear fashion. Furthermore, electrostatic band-pass region and amplification tuning is shown.

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