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Taher Saif Sulfridge, Marc Allen 2015-09-25T21:12:07Z 2015-09-25T21:12:07Z 10000-01-01 2003 2003 The experiments on radiation pressure revealed some unexpected behavior of the beam when toggled by short duration laser pulses. While long duration laser pulses at a power level slightly above the toggle threshold reliably toggled the beam every time, short duration pulses of the same power toggled the beam only about two thirds of the time. In addition, when excessively high power levels (far above the toggle threshold) were used, the device would not reliably toggle regardless of the pulse duration. In order to shed light on this unexpected behavior, a new, nonlinear dynamic analysis of the bistable beam device used in those experiments is presented. This model explains the anomalies, and extensive experimental evidence supporting the validity of the model is also presented. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T21:12:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3086193.pdf: 3190884 bytes, checksum: dbc669c3f8d829aef0152f4e7f9b7a6c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 85073 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 82 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/83792 (MiAaPQ)AAI3086193 eng Engineering, Mechanical Optical Actuation of MEMS Devices text Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.