Electrothermal properties and modeling of polysilicon microthermal actuators
- 11 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
- Vol. 12 (4), 513-523
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jmems.2003.815835
Abstract
This work addresses a range of issues on modeling electrothermal microactuators, including the physics of temperature dependent material properties and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) modeling techniques. Electrical and thermal conductivity are a nonlinear function of temperature that can be explained with electron and phonon transport models, respectively. Parametric forms of these equations are developed for polysilicon and a technique to extract these parameters from experimental data is given. A modeling technique to capture the convective and conductive cooling effects on a thermal actuator in air is then presented. Using this modeling technique and the established polysilicon material properties, simulation results are compared with measured actuator responses. Both static and transient analyzes have been performed on two styles of actuators and the results compare well with measured data.Keywords
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