General Electric Company

Eddula Sudhakar Reddy

Kanakasabapathi Subramanian

Christopher Fred Keimel

Marco Francesco Aimi

Reed Roeder Corderman

Atanu Saha

Alex David Corwin

Kuna Venkat Satya Rama Kishore

Parag Thakre

Shubhra Bansal

Provided is a device, such as a switch structure, that includes a contact and a conductive element that is configured to be deformable between a first position in which the conductive element is separated from the contact and a second position in which the conductive element contacts the contact. The conductive element can be formed substantially of metallic material configured to inhibit time-dependent deformation. For example, the metallic material may be configured to exhibit a maximum steady-state plastic strain rate of less than 10swhen subject to a stress of at least about 25 percent of a yield strength of the metallic material and a temperature less than or equal to about half of a melting temperature of the metallic material. The contact and the conductive element may be part of a microelectromechanical device or a nanoelectromechanical device. Associated methods are also provided.

Switch structure and method

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Eddula Sudhakar Reddy