Geometrical Variation Analysis of an Electrothermally Driven Polysilicon Microactuator

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2008-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/0805.0888v1

Dans Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS - DTIP 2008, Nice : France (2008)

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Submitted on behalf of EDA Publishing Association (http://irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/16838)

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The analytical models that predict thermal and mechanical responses of microactuator have been developed. These models are based on electro thermal and thermo mechanical analysis of the microbeam. Also, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is used to evaluate microactuator tip deflection. Analytical and Finite Element results are compared with experimental results in literature and show good agreement in low input voltages. A dimensional variation of beam lengths, beam lengths ratios and gap are introduced in analytical and FEA models to explore microactuator performance. An electrothermally driven polysilicon microactuator similar to Pan's actuator architecture has been studied in this paper. This microactuator generates deflection through asymmetric heating of the hot and cold polysilicon arms with different lengths. For this microactuator architecture, an optimal beam length ratio equal to 0.46 has been obtained to achieve maximum tip deflection. . As it was expected, the results show decreasing air gap increase microactuator tip deflection. It is also found that for microactuators with longer hot arms, microactuator tip deflections are more sensitive to beam length ratios and air gap.

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