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A stationary free boundary problem modeling electrostatic MEMS

Analysis of PDEs 2013-01-28 v1

Abstract

A free boundary problem describing small deformations in a membrane based model of electrostatically actuated MEMS is investigated. The existence of stationary solutions is established for small voltage values. A justification of the widely studied narrow-gap model is given by showing that steady state solutions of the free boundary problem converge toward stationary solutions of the narrow-gap model when the aspect ratio of the device tends to zero.

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@article{arxiv.1111.1156,
  title  = {A stationary free boundary problem modeling electrostatic MEMS},
  author = {Philippe Laurencot and Christoph Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1156},
  year   = {2013}
}
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