This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus including one or more capacitance control layers to decrease the magnitude of an electric field between a movable layer and an electrode. In one aspect, a display device includes an electrode, a movable layer, and a capacitance control layer. At least a portion of the movable layer can be configured to move toward the electrode when a voltage is applied across the electrode and the movable layer and an interferometric cavity can be disposed between the movable layer and the first electrode. The capacitance control layer can be configured to decrease the magnitude of an electric field between the movable layer and the electrode when the voltage is applied across the movable layer and the electrode.