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 Electrostatic Micropump

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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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