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 Electrostatic Resonator

Micro Systems Lab. in AJOU UNIVERSITY

 Fig. 1. The photograph of the resonator fabricated through the batch processes.

Design and Fabrication of an Electrostatic Microplate Resonator
O. C. Jeong and S. S. Yang

ABSTRACT
This paper has represented an study on the electrostatic micro plate resonator which consists of a rigid plate supported by the four bridges and the counterelectrode. The deflection characteristics are investigated by using FEM simulation. The deflections of the bridges with above four corrugations are hardly affected by the initial stress and in case of the bridges without the corrugations, the deflection of those are samller than the other case. The bridges are fabricated by the p+ silicon and are designed for the corrugated structure for the residual stress release. The resonators are mainly fabricated by a boron diffusion process and anisotropic etch process. The static deflections of the resonators are calculated under the initial stress due to these processes and the enlarged electrostatic force due to the vertical deflection of the resonator. The calculated results are compared with the measurement results of the dynamic charecteristics of the resonators by using the laser vibrometer. The deflections obtained by the experiments of the corrugated bridges are similar to the calculated static deflections under the assume of the nonexistence of the initial stress and in case of the flat bridges, the deflections are smaller than that of the corrugated ones because of the included residual stress in p+ silicon thin films.
 

 Fig. 2. The force-deflection curve with the beam tension considered.

 

 

 

 Fig. 3. The deflection frequency response of the resonators.
(a) In the case of the flat bridge.
(b) In the case of the corrugated bridge.


 

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