Electrostatic Micropump |
Micro Systems
Lab. in AJOU UNIVERSITY |
Fabrication and Test Electrostatic
Actuation of Thin Diaphragms G. Y. Kwon and S. S. Yang ABSTRACT This paper presents the fabrication
of a micropump and characterizations of an actuator which can be
used instead of conventional passive valves for the medication of
hydrocephalus. The electrostatic micropump which has concave
curved electrodes and diaphragms is more appropriate than any other
actuator types because of the low voltage constraint for implantation.
The micropump has three actuator diaphragms which can be actuated
seperately to make peristaltic pumping. The micropump is composed
of three parts - top substrate for making a cavity, a middle substrate
having three actuation diaphragms and a bottom substrate having
three concave counter electrodes. The top substrate has a
access holes for recovering of the diaphragm. This is sealed
with epoxy while actuating two diaphragms are actuated down to the
electrodes. The middle substrate has parylene diaphragms which
have water-proof and have low Young's modulus. The parylene
diaphragms are fabricated as four types which are the flat diaphragm,
the three corrugated diaphragms with the radial, spiral and circular
shape corrugation. The bottom PDMS substrate has conduits
and curve-shaped aluminium electrode corresponding to the middle
substrate's aluminium electrodes on parylene diaphragms. The
cavity above parylene diaphragm is filled with the air and the opposite
is conduits pumped the liquid. The lenth and width of the
micropump is 22 §® and 10 §®. also, the thickness is 3 §®.
The electrostatic micropump is fabricated
using Si anisotrophic wet etch, SU8 photolithgraphy, PDMS molding
and parylene deposition. The static characteristics
of the diaphragm are obtained by measuring the diaphragm deflection
while various pressures are applied to the diaphragm with a water
column. The dynamic characteristics are obtained for the flat
diaphragm and the three corrugated diaphragms with the different
concave chamber depths. When the sinusoidal input of AC 100
V at 1 Hz was applied to the actuator with 48 § deep concave chamber,
the flat diaphragm deflected by 5 §, the corrugated diaphragms
deflected 25 § and 23 §, respectively, for the spiral and circular
types. The cutoff frequency of the diaphragms with the spiral
dorrugation and the circular one are 10 Hz and 50 Hz, respectively.
When the concave chamber depth are 48 § and 65 §, The diaphragm
with the circular corrugation deflected 23 § and 15 §, respectively.

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