Design and Simulation of a Low Actuation Voltage Capacitive MEMS Switch

Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering

مقاله 8، دوره 8، شماره 3، آذر 2014، صفحه 67-73   

نوع مقاله: Review Article

نویسندگان

Ayub Soltani^* ؛ Mahmoud Ghasemi؛ Khalil Mafinezhad

Sadjad Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran

چکیده

In this paper we have proposed a new switch or structure for reducing actuation voltage. This switch is compared with four conventional structures considering the force range of 1uN to 3uN. We have used the ANSYS software for design and simulation for the switch parameters such as actuation voltage, collapse voltage, spring constant and resonant frequency. Small size (half the size of other proposed materials), which can reduce the manufacturing cost, and also low-valued spring constant, which results inactuation voltage reduction, are among more noticeable features of the proposed switch. 

کلیدواژه‌ها

MEMS؛ en؛ Switches؛ Collapse Voltage؛ Sensitivity؛ Fixed-Fixed Beam

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