AVS 47th International Symposium
    MEMS Friday Sessions

Session MM+VT-FrM
MEMS Actuators, Pumps, Power Devices, and Tribology

Friday, October 6, 2000, 8:20 am, Room 309
Moderator: R. Robbins, Texas Instruments


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8:20am MM+VT-FrM1 Invited Paper
Micromechanical Devices for Force Measurement
T.W. Kenny, Stanford University
9:00am MM+VT-FrM3 Invited Paper
Developing MEMS Vacuum Pumps
E.P. Muntz, University of Southern California
9:40am MM+VT-FrM5
Miniaturized Fuel Cell for Portable Power
H.L. Maynard, J.P. Meyers, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories
10:00am MM+VT-FrM6 Invited Paper
Nanotribology and Stiction Studies of Surface Micromachined Electrostatic Micromotors Using An Atomic Force/Friction Force Microscope
S. Sundararajan, B. Bhushan, The Ohio State University
10:40am MM+VT-FrM8
Characterizing Coupled MEM Oscillators for Array Applications
R. Baskaran, Cornell University, K.L. Turner, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00am MM+VT-FrM9
Tunable Mechanical Oscillator
M.K. Zalalutdinov, B. Ilic, A. Zehnder, J.M. Parpia, H.G. Craighead, Cornell University
11:20am MM+VT-FrM10
Thermal Characteristics of Microswitch Contacts
X. Yan, N.E. McGruer, Northeastern University, S. Majumder, Analog Devices, G.G. Adams, Northeastern University