  This work provides a low-power method for chaos generation which is generally
applicable to nonlinear M/NEMS resonators. The approach taken is independent of
the material, scale, design, and actuation of the device in question; it simply
assumes a good quality factor and a Duffing type nonlinearity, features that
are commonplace to M/NEMS resonators. The approach models the rotating-frame
dynamics to analytically constrain the parameter space required for chaos
generation. By leveraging these common properties of M/NEMS devices, a
period-doubling route to chaos is generated using an order-of-magnitude smaller
forcing than typically reported in the literature.
