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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:B2L-A

Session:

Number:352

Read and Write Operations of Memory Device Consisting of Nonlinear MEMS Resonator

Atsushi YAO,  Takashi HIKIHARA,  

pp.352-355

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.352

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Nonlinear MEMS resonator exhibits two stable periodic vibrations with hysteresis at a single excitation frequency. Badzey et al. reported that the nonlinear MEMS resonator can be applied to a memory device. Based on their results, we try to demonstrate read and write operations of the memory device. In this paper, the read out operation of the device is achieved via a current through capacitor which is proportional to the displacement of MEMS resonator in differential configuration. Through the experiments and numerical simulations, the write operation is also performed by a displacement feedback control.

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