Casimir-electrostatic pull-in in nanoelectromechanical actuators: Differentiable design sensitivities and the damping-dependent collapse boundary

N. S. Akintsov, A. P. Nevecheria, S. N. Andreev +1

Nanoelectromechanical actuators operating at sub-100-nm gaps collapse through a pull-in instability set by competing electrostatic and Casimir forces. The quasi-static fold that bo…