David Elata
Office: 341, LD
Phone: 829-3184
Fax: 829-5711
Associate ProfessorMechanical Engineering MicroSystem (also MEMS) Laboratory
Education
- 1986 - B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- 1989 - M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T., Israel
- 1993 - D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T., Israel
Research Interests
- Modeling the Static and Dynamic Response of Electrostatic Micro-Actuators
- Modeling and Development of Novel Thermoelastic Actuation Schemes for MEMS Devices
- Modeling the electromechanical Response of Piezoelectric Micro-Structures
- Electromechanical Buckling and Application in MEMS
- Micro Test-Devices for measuring Mechanical Properties
- Damage Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Contact Mechanics
Guest Appointments
- Research Associate, Geophysics Dept., Stanford University (summer of 1996)
- Visiting Post-Doc, Geophysics Dept., Stanford University (1995-1996)
- Post-Doc staff member, Earth Sciences Div., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1993-1996)
Membership in Professional Societies
Honors and Awards
- Ray and Miriam Klein Research Award (2006)
- Hershel Rich Innovation Award (2004)
- Salomon Simon Mani Award for excellence in teaching (2000)
- Leah & Donald Lewis Academic Lectureship (1997, 1998)
- Wolf Foundation Scholarship (1992)
- Gutwirth Scholarship (1988, 1989)
- Dr. Abraham Eisen Award (1987)
Selected Publications
- E. Elka, D. Elata and C. Abramovich, The electromechanical response of multi-layered piezoelectric structures, JMEMS, 13(2), 332- 341, 2004.
- D. Elata, R. Eshkenazy and M.P. Weiss, The mechanical behavior of a wire rope with an independent wire rope core, Int. J. of Solids and Structures , 41, 1157-1172, 2004.
- D. Elata and V. Leus, "How slender can comb-drive fingers be?". J. Micromech. Microeng., 15(5), 1055-1059, 2005.
- R. Mahameed and D. Elata, "Two-dimensional Analysis of Temperature-Gradient Actuation of Cantilever Beam Resonators". J. Micromech. Microeng. 15(8), 1414-1424, 2005.
- D. Elata and H. Bamberger, "On the dynamic pull-in of electrostatic actuators with multiple degrees of freedom and multiple voltage sources", IEEE JMEMS, 15(1), 131-140, 2006.
- D. Elata and A. Hirshberg, "A novel test device for measuring the strength of microbeams". IEEE JMEMS, 15(2), 396-405, 2006.
- D. Elata and S. Abu-Salih, "Analysis of the electromechanical buckling of a pre-stressed micro beam that is bonded to an elastic foundation". Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, 1(5), 911-923, 2006.
- S. Abu-Salih and D. Elata, "Experimental validation of ElectroMechanical Buckling". JMEMS, 15(6), 1656-1662, 2006.
- V. Leus, Arnon Hirshberg and D. Elata, "Soft switching and soft release of RF MEMS switches using short-pulse voltage actuation scheme", EuroSimE 2007, April 2007, London, UK.
- D. Elata, V. Leus, A. Hirshberg, O. Salomon, and M. Naftali, "A novel tilting micromirror with a triangular waveform resonance response and an adjustable resonance frequency for raster scanning applications", Transducers2007, Lyon, June 2007.
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