Summary: Journal of Computational Electronics 1: 313­316, 2002
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Parameterization of Continuum Theories for Single Wall Carbon Nanotube
Switches by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
MARC DEQUESNES
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
S.V. ROTKIN
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
N.R. ALURU
Beckman Institute and Department of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
aluru@uiuc.edu, http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/aluru
Abstract. We propose continuum models for simulation of carbon nanotube based electromechanical switches.
Mechanical behavior of a single wall nanotube has been modeled by a continuum model parameterized by using
molecular dynamics simulations. By coupling the continuum mechanical and electrostatic models, electromechan-
ical analysis of a single wall nanotube is performed to compute the pull-in voltage.
Keywords: single wall carbon nanotube, NEMS, pull-in voltage, molecular dynamics, continuum theory
1. Introduction

Source: Aluru, Narayana R. - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Collections: Engineering; Materials Science