Dynamics of noncontact rack-and-pinion device subject to thermal noise: Multiharmonic motion of the rack

• Published in: International journal of non-linear mechanics Vol. 89; pp. 75 - 82
• Main Authors: Dehyadegari, Amin, Miri, MirFaez, Etesami, Zahra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2017; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Angular velocity; Corrugated plates; Cylinders; Electric noise; Fokker-Planck equation; Lateral Casimir force; Lifts; Microelectromechanical systems; Miniaturization; Nanomachine; Thermal noise; Torque; Velocity; 99-00; Thermal noise; Fokker-Planck equation; 00-01; Lateral Casimir force; Nanomachine

We study miniaturized noncontact rack and pinion composed of a corrugated plate and a corrugated cylinder intermeshed via the lateral Casimir force. We assume that the rack position versus time is a periodic multi-harmonic signal. The axle of the pinion is subject to Casimir torque, frictional torqu...