Journal
MICROMACHINES
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi10050323
Keywords
MEMS mirror; electrothermal bimorph; Cu/W bimorph; electrothermal actuation; reliability
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- National Science Foundation [1512531]
- National Institutes of Health [R01EB020601]
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This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of an electrothermal MEMS mirror with large tip, tilt and piston scan. This MEMS mirror is based on electrothermal bimorph actuation with Cu and W thin-film layers forming the bimorphs. The MEMS mirror is fabricated via a combination of surface and bulk micromachining. The piston displacement and tip-tilt optical angle of the mirror plate of the fabricated MEMS mirror are around 114 m and +/- 8 degrees, respectively at only 2.35 V. The measured response time is 7.3 ms. The piston and tip-tilt resonant frequencies are measured to be 1.5 kHz and 2.7 kHz, respectively. The MEMS mirror survived 220 billion scanning cycles with little change of its scanning characteristics, indicating that the MEMS mirror is stable and reliable.
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