Publications

Book Chapters

ElectroMechanical Modeling. D. Elata and V. Leus, chapter 2, Advanced RF MEMS, Stepan Lucyszyn and Roberto Sorrentino (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp 23-40, 2010.
Modeling the Electromechanical Response of Electrostatic Actuators. D. Elata, Chapter 4, Mems/Nems Handbook, Leondes, Cornelius T. (Ed.). Volume IV: Sensors and Actuators in MEMS/NEMS, Springer, pp 93-119, 2006.

MEMS papers

• A classic parametric mems resonator: exploring up to the fifteenth instability window. S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, IEEE-JMEMS, 26(2), 325-332, 2017.
• Selective stiffening for enhancing and/or reversing the action of thermoelastic actuators. I. (Hotzen) Grinberg, S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, IEEE-JMEMS, 25(6), 999-1004, 2016.
• Selective Stiffening for Producing a Mass-Fabrication Compatible Motion Conversion Mechanism. I. (Hotzen) Grinberg, O. Ternyak, S. Shmulevich, and D. Elata, IEEE JMEMS, 24(6), 2101-2108, 2015.
• Dynamically Balanced Folded-Beam Suspensions for Resonators. S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, IEEE JMEMS, 24(6), 1965-1972, 2015.
• Electromagnetic interaction force between two noncoaxial circular coils. A. Benhaim, O. Shapira and D. Elata, Mechatronics, 30, 244-253, 2015.
• A MEMS Implementation of a Classic Parametric Resonator. S. Shmulevich,I. (Hotzen) Grinberg and D. Elata, IEEE-JMEMS, 24(5), 1285-1292, 2015.
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• On the Notion of a Mechanical Battery. On the Notion of a Mechanical Battery. S. Shmulevich, A. Joffe, I. (Hotzen) Grinberg and D. Elata, IEEE-JMEMS, 24(4), 1085-1091, 2015.
• A gap-closing electrostatic actuator with a linear extended range. S. Shmulevich, B. Rivlin, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, IEEE JMEMS, 22(5), 1109-1114, 2013.
• On the quality of quality-factor in gap-closing electrostatic resonators. S. Shmulevich, M. Lerman and D. Elata, J. Micromech. Microeng., 23(11), 115010, 1-10, 2013.
• Design of nonlinear springs for attaining a linear response in gap-closing electrostatic actuators. B. Rivlin and D. Elata, Int. J. Solids and Structures, 49(26), 3816-3822, 2012.
• The Electromechanical Response of a Symmetric Electret Parallel-Plates. D. Elata, Sensors and Actuators A, 173, 197-201, 2012.
• Electromechanical sensing of charge retention on floating electrodes. D. Elata, V. Leus, J. Provine, A. Hirshberg and R.T. Howe, IEEE JMEMS, 20(1), 150-156, 2011.
• Differential internal dielectric transduction of a Lamé-mode resonator. M. Ziaei-Moayyed, D. Elata, E. Quevy and R.T. Howe, J. Micromech. Microeng., 20(11), art. 115036, 2010.
• On the dynamic response of electrostatic MEMS switches. V. Leus and D. Elata, IEEE JMEMS, 17(1), 236 – 243, 2008.
• Hybrid dielectrophoresis devices that employ electrically floating electrodes. S. Golan, D. Elata and U. Dinnar, Sensors and Actuators A, 142, 138-146, 2008.
• Shield-layers for reducing thermoelastic damping in resonating Silicon bars. R. Mahameed and D. Elata, J. Microsystem Technologies, 15(2), 323-331, 2008.
• Experimental validation of ElectroMechanical Buckling. S. Abu-Salih and D. Elata, IEEE JMEMS, 15(6), 1656-1662, 2006.
• Analysis of electromechanical buckling of a prestressed microbeam that is bonded to an elastic foundation. D. Elata and S. Abu-Salih, J. of Mech. Mat. Struc., 1(5), 911-923, 2006.
• A novel method for measuring the strength of microbeams. D. Elata and A. Hirshberg, IEEE JMEMS, 15(2), 396-405, 2006.
• Floating electrode dielectrophoresis. S. Golan, D. Elata, M. Orenstein and U. Dinnar, Electrophoresis, 27, 4919-4926, 2006.
• On the dynamic pull-in of electrostatic actuators with multiple degrees of freedom and multiple voltage sources. D. Elata and H. Bamberger, IEEE JMEMS, 15(1), 131-140, 2006.
• Two-dimensional Analysis of Temperature-Gradient Actuation of Cantilever Beam Resonators. R. Mahameed and D. Elata, J. Micromech. Microeng., 15(8), 1414-1424, 2005.
• How slender can comb-drive fingers be?. D. Elata and V. Leus, J. Micromech. Microeng., 15(5), 1055-1059, 2005.
• Analytic postbuckling solution of an infinite beam bonded to an elastic foundation. S. Abu-Salih and D. Elata, Int. J. of Solids and Structures, 42(23), 6048-6058, 2005.
• Analysis of a novel method for measuring residual stress in micro-systems. D. Elata and S. Abu-Salih, J. Micromech. Microeng., 15(5), 921-927, 2005.
• On the static and dynamic response of electrostatic actuators. D. Elata, Micro and Nano-scale Mechanics, Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 53(4), 373-384, 2005.
• The electromechanical response of multi-layered piezoelectric structures. E. Elka, D. Elata and H. Abramovich, IEEE JMEMS, 13(2), 332- 341, 2004.
• Analytical approach and numerical α-lines method for pull-in hyper-surface extraction of electrostatic actuators with multiple uncoupled voltage sources. D. Elata, O. Degani and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE JMEMS, 12(5), 681-691, 2003.
• Micromirror device with reversibly adjustable properties. O. Degani, D. Elata and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE/ Photonic Tech. Lett., 15(5), 733-735, 2003.
• A general relation between the ranges of stability of electrostatic actuators under charge or voltage control. O. Degani, D. Elata and Y. Nemirovsky, Appl. Phys. Lett., 82(2), 302-304, 2003.
• An efficient DIPIE algorithm for CAD of electrostatically actuated MEMS devices. O. Degani, D. Elata and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE JMEMS, 11(5), 612-620, 2002.

Non-MEMS papers

• Direct torsion of bulk PZT using directional interdigitated electrodes. I. (Hotzen) Grinberg, N. Maccabi, A. Kassie, S. Shmulevich, D. Elata, Eurosensors 2016, Procedia Engineering, 168 (2016), 1483 – 1487, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-7, 2016.
• Analysing the mechanical behavior of a non-rotating wire rope. R. Eshkenazy, D. Elata and M.P. Weiss, J. Mech. Behav. Materials, 14(6), 383-396, 2004.
• Linear and nonlinear elasticity of granular media: Stress-induced anisotropy of a random sphere pack. D.L. Johnson, L.M. Schwartz, D. Elata, J.G. Berryman, B. Hornby and A.N. Norris, ASME J. of Applied Mechanics, 65, 380-388, 1998.
• Pure volumetric compaction of a prestressed nonlinear hyperelastic solid with reference to poroelastic materials. D. Elata, Mechanics of Materials, 31, 141-147, 1999.
• On the problem of rigid inclusions between two dissimilar elastic half-spaces with smooth surfaces. D. Elata, Int. J. of Solids and Structures, 36, 2633-2636, 1999.
• Contact force-displacement laws and the mechanical behavior of random packs of identical spheres. D. Elata and J.G. Berryman, Mechanics of Materials, 24, 229-240, 1996.
• Modeling added compressibility of porosity and the thermomechanical response of wet porous rock with application to Mt. Helen tuff. M.B. Rubin, D. Elata and A.V. Attia, Int. J. of Solids and Structures, 33, 761-793, 1996.
• Pressure sensitivity of cemented granular materials. D. Elata and J. Dvorkin, Mechanics of Materials, 23, 147-154, 1996.
• On the oblique compression of two elastic spheres. D. Elata, ASME J. of Applied Mechanics, 63, 1039-1041, 1996.
• A new representation for the strain energy of anisotropic elastic materials with application to damage evolution in brittle materials. D. Elata and M.B. Rubin, Mechanics of Materials, 19, 171-192, 1995.
• Isotropy of strain energy functions which depend only on a finite number of directional strain measures. D. Elata and M.B. Rubin, ASME J. of Applied Mechanics, 61, 284-289, 1994.
• On the generalized L2 Galerkin finite element method for linear hyperbolic equations. P. Bar-Yoseph, D. Elata and M. Israeli, Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., 36, 679-694, 1993.
• An efficient L2 Galerkin finite element method for multi-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic systems. P. Bar-Yoseph and D. Elata, Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., 29, 1229-1245, 1990.
• The effect of distributions of particle nonuniformities on the flow field behind steady normal shock waves. D. Elata, G. Ben-Dor and O. Igra, Int. J. of Heat and Fluid Flow, 10(2), 152-159, 1989.

Engineering Education

• Developing the Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST) of Freshman Engineering Students. M. Frank and D. Elata, Systems Engineering, 8(2), 187-195, 2005.
• Implementing the project-based learning approach in an academic engineering course. M. Frank, I. Lavy, and D. Elata, Int. J. of Tech. and Design Education, 13(3), 207-221, 2003.
• A creative introduction to mechanical engineering. D. Elata and I. Garaway, Int. J. of Eng. Education, 18(5), 566-575, 2002.

Conference Papers

• Two axes actuators (x-z or x-θ) driven by in-line electrostatic comb-drivesI. (Hotzen) Grinberg, S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2016. Shanghai, China, January 2016.
• Reversing the action of thermoelastic bi-morphs using selective directional stiffeners. I. (Hotzen) Grinberg, S. Shmulevich and D. Elata,IEEE-Transducers 2015, 904-907, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2015.
• Nonlinear mechanical springs for counteracting nonlinearities in in gap-closing electrostatic actuator. B. Rivlin, S. Shmulevich, A. Joffe and D. Elata, IEEE-EuroSimE 2015, 1-6, Budapest, Hungary, April 19-22 2015.
• Tuning the first instability window of a mems Meissner parametric resonator using a linear electrostatic anti-spring, S. Shmulevich, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2015, 172-175, Estoril, Portugal, January 2015.
• The electromechanical response of a self-excited mems franklin oscillator. S. Shmulevich, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2015, 41-44, Estoril, Portugal, January 2015.
• Dynamically-balanced folded-beam suspensions. S. Shmulevich, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2015, 215-218, Estoril, Portugal, January 2015.
• Mass-fabrication compatible mechanisms for converting in-plane to out-of-plane motion. I. Hotzen, O. Ternyak, S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2015, 897-900, Estoril, Portugal, January 2015.
• An Ideal MEMS Parametric Resonator Using a Tapered Comb-Drive. S. Shmulevich, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, Eurosensors 2014, Brescia, Italy, September 2014. Procedia Engineering, 87, 1481-1484, 2014.
• Are folded-beam suspensions really linear? S. Shmulevich, A. Joffe, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, Eurosensors 2014, Brescia, Italy, September 2014. Procedia Engineering, 87, 624-627, 2014.
• Selective Stiffening for Producing Motion Conversion Mechanisms. I. Hotzen, O. Ternyak, S. Shmulevich and D. Elata, Eurosensors 2014, Brescia, Italy, September 2014. Procedia Engineering, 87, 1589-1592, 2014.
• A gap-closing electrostatic actuator with a linear extended range. B. Rivlin, S. Shmulevich, I. Hotzen and D. Elata, IEEE-Transducers 2013, 582-585, Barcelona, Spain, June 2013.
• Measures of quality-factor in gap-closing electrostatic resonators. S. Shmulevich, M. Lerman and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2013, 417-420, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2013.
• Electromechanical sensing of charge retention in floating electrodes. D. Elata, V. Leus, J. Provine, A. Hirshberg, and R.T. Howe, IEEE-Sensors 2010, 1395-1398, Hawaii, USA, November 2010.
• On the quality-factor of micro-resonators. M. Lerman and D. Elata, Eurosensors XXIV, Linz, Austria, September 2010. Procedia Engineering,5, 95-98, 2014.
• Geometrical aspects of dielectric charging. D. Elata, Eurosensors XXIV, Linz, Austria, September 2010. Procedia Engineering, 5, 1308-1311, 2014.
• Higher order mode internal electrostatic transduction of a bulk-mode resonator on quartz substrate. M. Ziaei-Moayyed, J. Hsieh, J.-W. P. Chen, E. P. Quévy, D. Elata, and R. T. Howe, IEEE-Transducers 2009, 2338-2341, Denver, CO, June 2009.
• Direct wire-bonding of silicon devices without metal pads. A. Hirshberg and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2009, 757-760, Sorrento, Italy, January 2009.
• A New Efficient Method for Simulating the Dynamic Response of Electrostatic Switches. V. Leus and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2009, 1115-1118, Sorrento, Italy, January 2009.
• Fully differential internal electrostatic transduction of a Lamé-mode resonator. M. Ziaei-Moayyed, D. Elata, J. Hsieh, J.-W. Chen, E. P. Quévy, and R. T. Howe, IEEE-MEMS 2009, 931-934, Sorrento, Italy, January 2009.
• A new efficient algorithm for simulating the dynamic response of electrostatic micro actuators. V. Leus and D. Elata, Eurosensors XXII, Dresden, Germany, September 2008.
• Energy-reversible complementary NEM logic gates. K. Akarvardar, D. Elata, R. T. Howe and H.–S. P. Wong, 66th Annual Device Research Conference (DRC), 69-70, Santa Barbara, CA, June 2008.
• High-stability numerical algorithm for the simulation of deformable electrostatic MEMS devices. X. Rottenberg, B. Nauwelaers, W. De Raedt and D. Elata, NSTI-NANOTECH 2008, 501-504, Boston, MA, June 2008.
• Measuring charge and charge decay in floating-electrode electrostatic actuators. D. Elata, R. Hennessy, V. Leus, N. Klejwa, A. Hirshberg, J. Provine and R.T. Howe, Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop – Hilton-Head 2008. Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2008.
• Mask-less Wet Etching using Laser Induced Local Heating. J Provine, D. Witte, N. Lui, F. Mahmood, M. Masbou, D. Elata, F. Pease and R. T. Howe, The fifty-second international conference on electron, ion, and photon beam technology and nanofabrication EIPBN 2008, Portland, Oregon, May 2008.
• Predicting the switching time of electrostatic actuators. V. Leus and D. Elata, IEEE-MEMS 2008, 491-494, Tucson, AZ, January 2008.
• Design considerations for complementary nanoelectromechanical logic gates. K. Akarvardar, D. Elata, R. Parsa, G. C. Wan, K. Yoo, J Provine, P. Peumans, R. T. Howe, and H.–S. P. Wong, IEEE-IEDM 2007, 299-302. Washington, DC, December 2007.
• A new instrument for tensile testing of thin free standing films at high strain rates. E. Ben-David, D. Elata, D. Rittel, and D. Shilo,International Conference on Experimental Mechanics ICEM13, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July, 2007.
• Analysis and experimental validation of electromechanical buckling. D. Elata and S. Abu-Salih, IEEE-Transducers 2007, 1669-1672, Lyon, France, June 2007.
• A novel tilting micromirror with a triangular waveform resonance response and an adjustable resonance frequency for raster scanning applications. D. Elata, V. Leus, A. Hirshberg, O. Salomon and M. Naftali, IEEE-Transducers 2007, 1509-1512, Lyon, France, June 2007.
• Optimizing the dynamic response of RF MEMS switches using tailored voltage pulses. V. Leus, A. Hirshberg and D. Elata, IEEE-EuroSimE 2007, 1-4, London, UK, April 2007.
• Floating electrode dielectrophoresi (feDEP). S. Golan, D. Elata, M. Orenstein and U. Dinnar, Eurosensors XX, Goteborg, Sweden, September 2006.
• Analytic model of the deflection of piezoelectric unimorph and bimorph structures with numerical verification. D. Elata, E. Elka and H. Abramovich, IEEE-EuroSimE 2006, 1-4, Como, Italy, April 2006.
• Using electromechanical buckling for measuring residual stress. S. Abu-Salih and D. Elata EuroSimE 2006, 1-4, Como, Italy, April 2006.
• A temperature-gradient driven micromirror with large angles and high frequencies. D. Elata and R. Mahameed, IEEE-MEMS 2006, 850-853, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2006.
• Shield layers for reducing thermoelastic damping in silicon resonators. R. Mahameed and D. Elata, Eurosensors XIX, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005.
• Side pull-in of individual comb-drive fingers. D. Elata and V. Leus, Eurosensors XIX, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005.
• Determining the strength of micro-beams without measuring forces or displacements. D. Elata, A. Hirshberg and M. Naftali, IEEE-MEMS 2005, 435-438, Miami Beach, Florida, January 2005.
• The affect of internal stress on the electromechanical buckling of a clamped-clamped beam. S. Abu-Salih and D. Elata, European Micro and Nano Systems 2004, Paris, France, October 2004.
• A lower bound for the dynamic pull-in of electrostatic actuators. D. Elata and H. Bamberger, European Micro and Nano Systems 2004, Paris, France, October 2004.
• A novel test device for measuring the strength of micro beams. A. Hirshberg, M. Naftali and D. Elata, Eurosensors XVIII, Rome, Italy, September 2004. Excellent Oral Presentation award (1st place).
• Vertical comb-drive angular actuators with a linear electrostatic response. M. Naftali, J.B. Kim, D. Elata and L. Lin, Eurosensors XVIII, Rome, Italy, September 2004.
• A novel 3D modeling approach for piezoelectric actuators, and a resulting method for deflection enhancement. E. Elka, D. Elata and H. Abramovich, Eurosensors XVIII, Rome, Italy, September 2004.
• Electrostatic test device for direct measurement of friction. G. Landsberg, S. Moisa, A. Hirshberg, M. Naftali and David Elata, Eurosensors XVIII, Rome, Italy, September 2004.
• A new 3D model of the electro-mechanical response of piezoelectric structures. D. Elata, E. Elka and H. Abramovich, NSTI-MSM 2004, 2, 267-270, Boston, MA, March 2004.
• Electromechanical buckling of a pre-stressed layer bonded to an elastic foundation. S. Abu-Salih and D. Elata, NSTI-MSM 2004, 2, 223-226, Boston, MA, March 2004.
• A novel thermoelastic actuation scheme for micro resonators. R. Mahameed and D. Elata, Eurosensors 2003, 14-17, Guimaraes, Portugal, September 2003.
• α-line method for measuring the stability domain and pull-in hyper-surface of electrostatic actuators with multiple voltage sources. O. Degani, D. Elata and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE-Transducers 2003, 2, 1100-1103, Boston, MA, June 2003.
• A micromirror device with post-fabrication re-adjustable pull-in parameters. D. Elata, O. Degani and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE-Transducers 2003, 2, 1478-1481, Boston, MA, June 2003.
• An efficient adaptive single-mode (ASM) Pull-In extraction algorithm for computer aided design of electrostatic MEMS devices. D. Elata, O. Degani and Y. Nemirovsky, NSTI-MSM 2003, San Francisco, CA, February 2003.
• Secondary DOF and their effect on the instability of electrostatic MEMS devices. D. Elata, O. Degani and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE-MEMS 2003, 177-180, Kyoto, Japan, January 2003.
• An efficient numerical algorithm for extracting Pull-In Hyper-Surfaces of electrostatic actuators with Multiple Uncoupled Electrodes. D. Elata, O. Degani and Y. Nemirovsky, NSTI-MSM 2002, 206-209, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April, 2002.
• An efficient relaxation based DIPIE algorithm for computer aided design of electrostatic actuators. O. Degani, D. Elata and Y. Nemirovsky, IEEE-MEMS 2002, 200-203, Las Vegas, NV, January 2002.