標題: Thermal switch design by using complementary metal-oxide semiconductor MEMS fabrication process
作者: Chiou, Jin-Chern
Chou, Lei-Chun
Lai, You-Liang
Juang, Ying-Zong
Huang, Sheng-Chieh
電控工程研究所
Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering
公開日期: 1-Jul-2011
摘要: The present study focuses on implementing a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microelectromechanical system thermal switch by using the commercially available Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 0.35 mu m two-poly four-metal CMOS process. There are two novel designs: first, the soft contact structure and post-processing fabrication; second, a new design of thermal actuator. To create the soft contact structure, residual stress effect has been utilised to make different bending curvatures. According to the experiments, the layer metal-1 has the largest residual stress effect that can achieve the largest deflection in the z-axis. Because the residual stress of the layer metal-1 is negative, the structure will bend down after release, hence providing larger contact area, which has been set up to obtain the lowest contact miss ability. In the post-processing fabrication, 0.3 mu m thickness gold will be patterned at the contact tips. Since gold, rather than aluminium, has no oxidation issue, it has more reliability in preventing the problem of oxidation than aluminium. In the new thermal actuator design, the authors designed a novel folded-flexure with the electrothermal excitation to turn the switch on or off. In the prototype, the device size is 500 x 400 mu m and the gap between two contact pads is 9 mu m in off-state. Depending on the simulation results, the switch can work stably at 3 V, and the working temperature and operating bandwidth are individually 20-200 degrees C.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/mnl.2011.0122
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/21818
ISSN: 1750-0443
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2011.0122
期刊: MICRO & NANO LETTERS
Volume: 6
Issue: 7
起始頁: 534
結束頁: 536
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