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ROMJIST is a publication of Romanian Academy,
Section for Information Science and Technology

Editor – in – Chief:
Radu-Emil Precup

Honorary Co-Editors-in-Chief:
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
Gheorghe Stefan

Secretariate (office):
Adriana Apostol
Adress for correspondence: romjist@nano-link.net (after 1st of January, 2019)

Editing of the printed version: Mihaela Marian (Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

Technical editor
of the on-line version:
Lucian Milea (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest)

Sponsor:
• National Institute for R & D
in Microtechnologies
(IMT Bucharest), www.imt.ro

ROMJIST Volume 22, No. 2, 2019, pp. 124-134
 

Angela Baracu, Raluca Müller, Rodica Voicu, Catalin Tibeica, Adrian Dinescu, Marius Pustan, Corina Birleanu
Microfabrication and experimental characterization of an Out-of-Plane MEMS switch

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an approach to improve the performance of a Micro-Electro-Mechanical (MEMS) switch with vertical movement, manufactured using surface micromachining technology. We focused on the investigations of the critical technological dimensions (gap, thickness of the arms) in order to obtain a released, stable mechanical structure and to avoid the stiction effect of the metallic shapes. Technological experiments, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) investigations, CoventorWare and Comsol simulations were performed in order to investigate the electro-thermo-mechanical behaviour of the switch.

KEYWORDS: MEMS switch, thermal actuator, microfabrication, sacrificial layer

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