APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF INDUCING TIME-VARYING THERMAL GRADIENTS BY HEATING ELEMENTS OR INDUCING ELECTROSTATIC FORCES BY ELECTROSTATIC ELEMENTS IN ONE OR MORE ELONGATED BEAMS TO CAUSE ONE OR MORE ELONGATED BEAM OSCILLATIONS

摘要

An apparatus comprising one or more heating elements or one ore more electrostatic elements and one or more elongated beams. The heating element or the electrostatic element is coupled with the elongated beam and induces a time-varying thermal gradient in or a time-varying voltage that creates an electrostatic force on the elongated beam to cause one or more oscillations of one or more of the one or more elongated beams.