Micro membrane vibrator with thermally driven bimorph cantilever beams

Chun Chieh Tsao; Wensyang Hsu

doi:10.1117/12.293498

14 November 1997 Micro membrane vibrator with thermally driven bimorph cantilever beams

Chun Chieh Tsao, Wensyang Hsu

Proceedings Volume 3241, Smart Materials, Structures, and Integrated Systems; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.293498
Event: Far East and Pacific Rim Symposium on Smart Materials, Structures, and MEMS, 1997, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

A micro membrane vibrator consisting of bimorph cantilever beams and a membrane is designed, fabricated, and tested here. Due to the discrepancy of thermal expansion coefficients between different layers, the membrane moves with temperature change. The four-layer structure including SiO2-polysilicon- insulated SiO2-aluminum is fabricated with four masks. The numerical finite element program ANSYS 51 is used to investigate the behavior of different designs to have larger displacement and force. According to the testing results, we observe that our designs can induce the maximum Z-axis displacement up to 117 micrometer when input power is 6.98 W. The working frequency is about 40 Hz when the amplitude is kept between 2 and 5 micrometer approximately.

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Chun Chieh Tsao and Wensyang Hsu "Micro membrane vibrator with thermally driven bimorph cantilever beams", Proc. SPIE 3241, Smart Materials, Structures, and Integrated Systems, (14 November 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.293498

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