A doorbell system is disclosed. The doorbell system includes a housing, a heat-generating structure, and a cooling system. The housing is configured to be coupled to a structure. The heat-generating structure and cooling system are coupled with the housing. The cooling system includes at least one active cooling cell. The heat-generating structure may be thermally coupled with the cooling system. The active cooling cell(s) are configured to utilize vibrational motion to drive a fluid for transferring heat from the heat-generating structure. The cooling system is coupled with and contained by the housing.

An MEMS having a layered structure includes a cavity disposed in the layered structure and fluidically coupled to an external environment of the layered structure through at least one opening in the layered structure. The MEMS includes an interaction structure movably disposed in a first MEMS plane and in the cavity along a plane direction and configured to interact with a fluid in the cavity, wherein movement of the interaction structure is causally related to movement of the fluid through the at least one opening. The MEMS further includes an active structure disposed in a second MEMS perpendicular to the plane direction, the active structure mechanically coupled to the insulation structure and configured such that an electrical signal at an electrical contact of the active structure is causally related to a deformation of the active structure, wherein the deformation of the active structure is causally related to movement of the fluid.

An MEMS comprising a substrate having a cavity includes a movable layer arrangement arranged in the cavity including a first beam, a second beam and a third beam that is arranged between the first beam and the second beam and that is fixed at discrete areas electrically insulated from the same. The movable layer arrangement is configured to perform a movement along a direction of movement in a substrate plane in response to an electrical potential between a first beam and a third beam or in response to an electrical potential between the second beam and the third beam. The first, second, and third beams are part of a first layer of the movable layer arrangement. The movable layer arrangement includes a second layer arranged adjacent to the first layer along a direction perpendicular to the substrate plane. The second layer is arranged movably along the direction of movement.

A fluidic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes fluid interaction elements (FIEs) that can be displaced by an actuator to generate fluid flow. The FIEs include a serial arrangement of cantilevered lever arms to achieve, for example, high sound pressure levels in a micro speaker or high pump rates in a micropump as compared to some conventional MEMS devices.