Saturday, July 30, 2022

Green IT and Electrically Actuated Microbeams

A piezoelectric microbeam with rectangular
cross-section and its coordinate system. 
R. Ansari et. al. doi:10.1155/2014/598292
CC BY 4 2014
I am delighted any time my work is cited. But I feel like I have become a character in The Big Bag Theory, after a mention in "Electrically Actuated Microbeams: An Explicit Calculation of the Coulomb Integral in the Entire Stable and Unstable Regimes Using a Chebyshev-Edgeworth Approach" (Schenk,  Melnikov, Wall, Gaudet, Stolz, Schuffenhauer, & Kaiser, 2022). If you are wondering, as I did, what a Microbeam (or Coulomb actuated microbeam) is, this microelectromechanical system is a tiny strip of material which is made to bend when electricity is applied. These are used by the million in optical displays, and in sensors. Requiring only a tiny electrical current, they reduce the energy needed, and so the authors cited  my book on ICT Sustainability (Worthington, 2017).

References

Schenk, H. A., Melnikov, A., Wall, F., Gaudet, M., Stolz, M., Schuffenhauer, D., & Kaiser, B. (2022). Electrically Actuated Microbeams: An Explicit Calculation of the Coulomb Integral in the Entire Stable and Unstable Regimes Using a Chebyshev-Edgeworth Approach. Physical Review Applied18(1), 014059. https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.014059

Worthington, T. (2017). ICT Sustainability: Assessment and strategies for a low carbon future. Lulu. com. https://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/introduction.shtml

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