摘要 |
<p>Electromagnetic-wave-modulating capacitors (10) having transparent movable electrodes (20, 22, 24, 26) and conductive fixed electrodes (14) are low-cost, low-energy, reliable and fast-acting elements for employment in highly transparent applications, such as in reflective display pixels for large and small-scale video displays, including full-color displays where multiple such capacitors are aligned in a single pixel. Further embodiments, not necessarily with a transparent electrode, are assemblable into arrays antennas deployable in outer space; provide digitally controllable or responsive such variable capacitors; and in mechanically active applications can be constituted as accelerometers, or in microrobotics. Constructions with ultra-thin electrodes have special advantage.</p> |