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Tobias Bandi
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Where is the limit? Yield strength improvement in silicon micro-structures by surface treatments
Antonia Neels, Alex Dommann, Tobias Bandi
Imperfections, like surface roughness and defects, introduced by common manufacturing processes are recognized to favor failure of microfabricated components and systems. Up to now only a reduced part of the ideal strength prediction by zero Kelvin quantum ...
Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016Reliability Aspects of Microelectromechanical Systems for Space Applications
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are an essential ingredient in many technological innovations and a source of game-changing inventions in the automotive industry, space exploration, consumer electronics and medical applications due to its capability ...
EPFL2014Evaluation of silicon tuning-fork resonators under space-relevant radiation conditions
Herbert Shea, Alex Dommann, Tobias Bandi
This work reports on irradiations made on silicon bulk-acoustic wave resonators. The resonators were based on a tuning fork geometry and actuated by a piezoelectric aluminum nitride layer. They had a resonance frequency of 150 kHz and a quality factor of a ...
2014Improved test setup for MEMS mechanical strength investigations and fabrication process qualification
Herbert Shea, Xavier Maeder, Tobias Bandi
ABSTRACT The mechanical stability of silicon MEMS dies is strongly influenced by the microfabrication processes, especially grinding, dicing and etching, which leave characteristic damage (defects, cracks, dislocations...) in the substrate material. Specia ...
2014Making MEMS more suited for Space: Assessing the proton-radiation tolerance of structural materials for microsystems in orbit
Herbert Shea, Antonia Neels, Alex Dommann, Tobias Bandi
We report on the susceptibility of structural MEMS materials to proton radiation damage. Radiation tests at spacerelevant doses were conducted on MEMS resonators. The two materials examined were single crystal silicon and SU-8, which are both in widespread ...
2013Proton-Radiation Tolerance of Silicon and SU-8 as Structural Materials for High-Reliability MEMS
Herbert Shea, Antonia Neels, Alex Dommann, Tobias Bandi
The susceptibility of single-crystal silicon and SU-8 resonators to proton-radiation induced degradation was investigated. Both materials are in widespread use for microsystems structures, thus the stability of the mechanical properties must be ensured ove ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013