{"id":86447,"date":"2019-01-07T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/binghamton-university-researchers-design-a-more-durable-mems-switch"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:46:50","slug":"binghamton-university-researchers-design-a-more-durable-mems-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/binghamton-university-researchers-design-a-more-durable-mems-switch","title":{"rendered":"Binghamton University researchers design a more durable MEMS switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/binghamton-university-researchers-design-a-more-durable-mems-switch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Binghamton University\u2019s Mechanical Engineering Department have developed a way to make cell phones and power lines more durable.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Assistant Professor Sherry Towfighian and graduate student Mark Pallay created a new type of microelectromechanical system \u2013 more commonly known as a MEMS switch \u2013 that uses electrostatic levitation to provide a more robust system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll cell phones use MEMS switches for wireless communication, but traditionally there are just two electrodes,\u201d said Towfighian. \u201cThose switches open and close numerous times during just one hour, but their current lifespan is limited by the two-electrode system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/news\/story\/1541\/binghamton-university-researchers-design-a-durable-mems-switch\">https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/news\/story\/1541\/binghamton-univer...ems-switch<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Binghamton University\u2019s Mechanical Engineering Department have developed a way to make cell phones and power lines more durable. Assistant Professor Sherry Towfighian and graduate student Mark Pallay created a new type of microelectromechanical system \u2013 more commonly known as a MEMS switch \u2013 that uses electrostatic levitation to provide a more robust system. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}