Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050876
Xiaojun Yan, Mingjing Qi, Liwei Lin
We present self-lifting artificial insect wings by means of electrostatic actuation for the first time. Excited by a DC power source, biomimetic flapping motions have been generated to lift the artificial wings 5cm above ground (limited by the current experimental setup) under an operation frequency of 50-70Hz. Three achievements have been accomplished: (1) first successful demonstration of self-lifting electrostatic flying wings; (2) low power consumption as compared to other actuation schemes; and (3) self-adjustable rotating wing design to provide the lifting force. As such, this work can lead to a new class of electrostatic flapping actuators for artificial flying insects.
{"title":"Self-lifting artificial insect wings via electrostatic flapping actuators","authors":"Xiaojun Yan, Mingjing Qi, Liwei Lin","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050876","url":null,"abstract":"We present self-lifting artificial insect wings by means of electrostatic actuation for the first time. Excited by a DC power source, biomimetic flapping motions have been generated to lift the artificial wings 5cm above ground (limited by the current experimental setup) under an operation frequency of 50-70Hz. Three achievements have been accomplished: (1) first successful demonstration of self-lifting electrostatic flying wings; (2) low power consumption as compared to other actuation schemes; and (3) self-adjustable rotating wing design to provide the lifting force. As such, this work can lead to a new class of electrostatic flapping actuators for artificial flying insects.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116877329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051078
Zhengzheng Wu, M. Rais-Zadeh
In this work, an oxide-refill process is used to null the first-order temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of silicon MEMS resonators and to achieve high thermal resistance isolation structures. The technology enables fabrication of a low-power ovenized micro-platform on which multiple MEMS devices can be integrated. The intrinsic frequency-temperature characteristic of two resonators is utilized for temperature sensing, and closed-loop oven control is realized by phase-locking two MEMS oscillators at a specific temperature. PLL-based control circuitry is implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS to interface with the MEMS resonators. The ovenized MEMS oscillator exhibits an overall frequency drift of ± 5.5 ppm over -40 °C to 70 °C. The MEMS oscillator exhibits near zero phase noise degradation in closed-loop operation.
{"title":"A temperature-stable mems oscillator on an ovenized micro-platform using a PLL-based heater control system","authors":"Zhengzheng Wu, M. Rais-Zadeh","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051078","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, an oxide-refill process is used to null the first-order temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of silicon MEMS resonators and to achieve high thermal resistance isolation structures. The technology enables fabrication of a low-power ovenized micro-platform on which multiple MEMS devices can be integrated. The intrinsic frequency-temperature characteristic of two resonators is utilized for temperature sensing, and closed-loop oven control is realized by phase-locking two MEMS oscillators at a specific temperature. PLL-based control circuitry is implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS to interface with the MEMS resonators. The ovenized MEMS oscillator exhibits an overall frequency drift of ± 5.5 ppm over -40 °C to 70 °C. The MEMS oscillator exhibits near zero phase noise degradation in closed-loop operation.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116696308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051129
A. Patterson, Enes Calayir, G. Fedder, G. Piazza, B. Soon, Navab Singh
By 3D integration of an array of 12 nominally identical AlN MEMS sub-filters with a CMOS switching matrix and application of statistical element selection to the same system, we have built a self-healing filter offering 495 unique filter responses and a tuning range of 500 kHz for both center frequency and bandwidth. The demonstrated system enables correction of intrinsic, fabrication-induced variation in filter performance that would otherwise constitute a severe yield limitation to the manufacture of standalone filters.
{"title":"Application of statistical element selection to 3D integrated AlN MEMS filters for performance correction and yield enhancement","authors":"A. Patterson, Enes Calayir, G. Fedder, G. Piazza, B. Soon, Navab Singh","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051129","url":null,"abstract":"By 3D integration of an array of 12 nominally identical AlN MEMS sub-filters with a CMOS switching matrix and application of statistical element selection to the same system, we have built a self-healing filter offering 495 unique filter responses and a tuning range of 500 kHz for both center frequency and bandwidth. The demonstrated system enables correction of intrinsic, fabrication-induced variation in filter performance that would otherwise constitute a severe yield limitation to the manufacture of standalone filters.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123385518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051090
M. Shibata, Takahiro Yamaguchi, S. Kumagai, M. Sasaki
In a microfluidic channel, thermocouples were fabricated on the sidewall of microchannel using the three-dimensional photolithography. The thermocouples on the side wall can directly sense the microfluid in the channel, and the accurate temperature measurement can be achieved. Moreover, the thermocouple metals on the sidewall do not make the shadow allowing the observation using the optical microscopy.
{"title":"Thermocouples on trench sidewall in channel fronting on flowing material","authors":"M. Shibata, Takahiro Yamaguchi, S. Kumagai, M. Sasaki","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051090","url":null,"abstract":"In a microfluidic channel, thermocouples were fabricated on the sidewall of microchannel using the three-dimensional photolithography. The thermocouples on the side wall can directly sense the microfluid in the channel, and the accurate temperature measurement can be achieved. Moreover, the thermocouple metals on the sidewall do not make the shadow allowing the observation using the optical microscopy.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121570937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050936
Y. Maeda, K. Terao, Takaaki Suzuki, F. Shimokawa, H. Takao
In this study, a novel tactile sensor with detection abilities of human body hardness and frictional force is reported. A new device configuration of back-side contact is proposed to realize a higher sensitivity of hardness, and low sensitivity to normal force. Miniaturization and sensitivity improvement of tactile sensor are important to apply the sensor to palpation inside of the body. Surface frictional force was successfully measured with rubber block in real time using our tactile image sensor. A completed device was evaluated, and shore A hardness was measured in the range from 1 HS to 54 HS. This performance corresponds to the hardness detection ability of adiposus in human body.
{"title":"A tactile sensor with the reference plane for detection abilities of frictional force and human body hardness aimed to medical applications","authors":"Y. Maeda, K. Terao, Takaaki Suzuki, F. Shimokawa, H. Takao","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050936","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a novel tactile sensor with detection abilities of human body hardness and frictional force is reported. A new device configuration of back-side contact is proposed to realize a higher sensitivity of hardness, and low sensitivity to normal force. Miniaturization and sensitivity improvement of tactile sensor are important to apply the sensor to palpation inside of the body. Surface frictional force was successfully measured with rubber block in real time using our tactile image sensor. A completed device was evaluated, and shore A hardness was measured in the range from 1 HS to 54 HS. This performance corresponds to the hardness detection ability of adiposus in human body.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121946527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050950
Hokuto Yamane, S. Nagasawa
In this paper we propose a trajectory control method for a MEMS falling object as shown in Figure 1. The MEMS falling object is consisted of two units, an autorotation part and a non-rotation part. The autorotation part keeps its attitude stable with the gyro-effect of the autorotation phenomenon. The non-rotation part keeps a non-rotation state by using the air breaking boards. This non-rotation part controls its falling trajectory and the scattering region. By using large falling objects, aerodynamics of the falling object was characterized, e.g. falling speed, rotational speed, etc. Then the MEMS falling object was designed considering with this aerodynamics. The MEMS falling object was fabricated with a method of the SU-8 multi-layer structure. A MEMS autorotation part whose wing length is 6mm in diameter rotates at 4,800 rpm in the wind-tunnel successfully.
{"title":"Trajectory control of MEMS falling object fabricated by SU-8 multilayer structure","authors":"Hokuto Yamane, S. Nagasawa","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050950","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a trajectory control method for a MEMS falling object as shown in Figure 1. The MEMS falling object is consisted of two units, an autorotation part and a non-rotation part. The autorotation part keeps its attitude stable with the gyro-effect of the autorotation phenomenon. The non-rotation part keeps a non-rotation state by using the air breaking boards. This non-rotation part controls its falling trajectory and the scattering region. By using large falling objects, aerodynamics of the falling object was characterized, e.g. falling speed, rotational speed, etc. Then the MEMS falling object was designed considering with this aerodynamics. The MEMS falling object was fabricated with a method of the SU-8 multi-layer structure. A MEMS autorotation part whose wing length is 6mm in diameter rotates at 4,800 rpm in the wind-tunnel successfully.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"46 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120853990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050941
Pi-Hsun Chen, Che-Hsin Lin
This study presents an MEMS-based stencil reinforced with arch structures and a surrounding buffer reservoir for printing conductive paste of fine and long lines. The developed reinforced stencil successfully solves the problems came with the conventional stencil structure including limited printable line width and ease of fracture. A novel process was developed to fabricate a thin yet robust electroplated stencil by using two AZ4620 layers and one SU-8 layer as the electroplating molds. A precise stencil with a long and high-density line structure can be produced with the developed method. The printing results show that the developed stencil is capable of printing parallel lines of 20 μm in pitch. The printable length of the fine parallel lines is longer than 10 mm with the arch structure reinforced stencil. In addition, the developed stencil is capable of printing closed ring patterns with small pitch, which is not possible to be printed using conventional stencil or screen printing technologies. The MEMS-based stencil developed in the present study will give substantial impact on the paste printing technologies.
{"title":"Electroplated stencil reinforced with arch structures for printing fine and long conductive paste","authors":"Pi-Hsun Chen, Che-Hsin Lin","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050941","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an MEMS-based stencil reinforced with arch structures and a surrounding buffer reservoir for printing conductive paste of fine and long lines. The developed reinforced stencil successfully solves the problems came with the conventional stencil structure including limited printable line width and ease of fracture. A novel process was developed to fabricate a thin yet robust electroplated stencil by using two AZ4620 layers and one SU-8 layer as the electroplating molds. A precise stencil with a long and high-density line structure can be produced with the developed method. The printing results show that the developed stencil is capable of printing parallel lines of 20 μm in pitch. The printable length of the fine parallel lines is longer than 10 mm with the arch structure reinforced stencil. In addition, the developed stencil is capable of printing closed ring patterns with small pitch, which is not possible to be printed using conventional stencil or screen printing technologies. The MEMS-based stencil developed in the present study will give substantial impact on the paste printing technologies.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131061394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051116
Hung D. Nguyen, Joshua A. Erbland, L. Sorenson, R. Perahia, Lian X. Huang, R. Joyce, Y. Yoon, D. Kirby, Tracy J. Boden, Robert B. McElwain, D. Chang
This paper reports the design, fabrication, and characterization of piezoelectric quartz MEMS magnetometers based on acoustic coupling between resonance modes. The magnetic sensors described herein employ a novel transduction scheme to upconvert the desired near-DC magnetic field signal (using the fundamental flexural mode) onto frequency modulated (FM) sidebands of the primary quartz thickness shear (TS) oscillation at frequencies above 500 MHz. First-generation devices exhibit flexural and TS resonances at 2.77 kHz and at 583.31 MHz, respectively, and magnetic sensitivity of 63.6 V/T was measured with an AC loop current of 9.2 mA. This novel sensing method, intended for electronic compassing, illuminates the interactions between low and high frequency acoustic modes within resonant devices.
{"title":"UHF piezoelectric quartz mems magnetometers based on acoustic coupling of flexural and thickness shear modes","authors":"Hung D. Nguyen, Joshua A. Erbland, L. Sorenson, R. Perahia, Lian X. Huang, R. Joyce, Y. Yoon, D. Kirby, Tracy J. Boden, Robert B. McElwain, D. Chang","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051116","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the design, fabrication, and characterization of piezoelectric quartz MEMS magnetometers based on acoustic coupling between resonance modes. The magnetic sensors described herein employ a novel transduction scheme to upconvert the desired near-DC magnetic field signal (using the fundamental flexural mode) onto frequency modulated (FM) sidebands of the primary quartz thickness shear (TS) oscillation at frequencies above 500 MHz. First-generation devices exhibit flexural and TS resonances at 2.77 kHz and at 583.31 MHz, respectively, and magnetic sensitivity of 63.6 V/T was measured with an AC loop current of 9.2 mA. This novel sensing method, intended for electronic compassing, illuminates the interactions between low and high frequency acoustic modes within resonant devices.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129696763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051146
Xinghua Wang, D. Xiao, Xuezhong Wu, Z. Hou, Zhihua Chen, Hanhui He
Many micro-electro-mechanical structures are always subject to residual stress and can easily cause mechanical deformation. The warpage of device substrate could directly affect the performance and should be effectively controlled. This paper mainly reports a novel concept of out-of-plane micro-force function generator for micro-deformation modifying. The proposed generator is based on batch fabricated polymer thermal actuators array and could actively modify micro-substrate warpage. Experimental results showed that the out-of-plane micro-force function generator was able to achieve accurate rectifying of substrate micro-deformation. This strategy constructively utilizes the inherent self-feedback for in-situ deformation control and has the potential for solving stress-induced problems of micro-fabricated devices.
{"title":"Out-of-plane micro-force function generator with inherent self-feedback for micro-deformation modifying","authors":"Xinghua Wang, D. Xiao, Xuezhong Wu, Z. Hou, Zhihua Chen, Hanhui He","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051146","url":null,"abstract":"Many micro-electro-mechanical structures are always subject to residual stress and can easily cause mechanical deformation. The warpage of device substrate could directly affect the performance and should be effectively controlled. This paper mainly reports a novel concept of out-of-plane micro-force function generator for micro-deformation modifying. The proposed generator is based on batch fabricated polymer thermal actuators array and could actively modify micro-substrate warpage. Experimental results showed that the out-of-plane micro-force function generator was able to achieve accurate rectifying of substrate micro-deformation. This strategy constructively utilizes the inherent self-feedback for in-situ deformation control and has the potential for solving stress-induced problems of micro-fabricated devices.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131091215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-02DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051138
Prakash Pitchappa, C. Ho, Y. Qian, Yu‐Sheng Lin, Navab Singh, Chengkuo Lee
In this report, we demonstrate a method to enhance the controllability of MEMS tunable metamaterial by isolating the electrical routing of alternate lines in the metamaterial unit cell array. The metamaterial consists of alternate lines of split ring resonators with two released heights. This allows for two independent tuning characteristics for a single MEMS metamaterial by selecting between the two external control ports. This technology can be further improved to provide line or pixel wise control, and can even be programmed to have one of many functionalities such as tunable filter, multicolor spatial modulator, gradient metamaterial or random metamaterial.
{"title":"Enhanced controllability in MEMS metamaterial","authors":"Prakash Pitchappa, C. Ho, Y. Qian, Yu‐Sheng Lin, Navab Singh, Chengkuo Lee","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051138","url":null,"abstract":"In this report, we demonstrate a method to enhance the controllability of MEMS tunable metamaterial by isolating the electrical routing of alternate lines in the metamaterial unit cell array. The metamaterial consists of alternate lines of split ring resonators with two released heights. This allows for two independent tuning characteristics for a single MEMS metamaterial by selecting between the two external control ports. This technology can be further improved to provide line or pixel wise control, and can even be programmed to have one of many functionalities such as tunable filter, multicolor spatial modulator, gradient metamaterial or random metamaterial.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127496073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}