Precisely Controlling Assembly Angle of Surface Tension Powered Self-Assembly for MEMS Microstructures

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai-Lin Pan ◽  
Yi-Lin Yan ◽  
Bin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Solder Paste ◽  
Surface Evolver ◽  
Final Assembly ◽  
The Relationship

How to integrate the microstructures which are made by various micro manufacturing methods into a functional system or device is the key to the application of MEMS technology. Solder self-assembly is based on surface tension with the properties of “self-organization”, low cost, batch processes and the compatibility with surface mount technology, which makes it be a challenging alternate technique. Solder self-assembly is based on the principle of surface energy minimization of molten solder material. During the process of minimizing the surface energy, surface tension can pull the horizontal hinged or hingeless plate up to a particular angle to achieve the minimal system energy. Finite element method is applied in this paper. MEMS self-assembly three-dimensional dynamic simulation model is developed by SURFACE EVOLVER. First, the model in this paper dynamically simulate the angle change of hinged plate during the process of evolvement of solder; second, the comparisons among the results from the current model and those from analytical two-dimensional model and three-dimensional static model are carried out; third, through Design of Experiments (DoE) with the application of the current model, the influences of design parameters such as pad size, pad geometry, and solder paste volume to the assembly angle are compared and discussed. Through changing the pad size, pad geometry and solder paste volume in SURFACE EVOLVER model, the corresponding final assembly angel from dynamic three-dimensional models are obtained. The relationship between design parameters to the assembly angle is concluded by the application of statistical analyses. The final angle can be controlled more effectively through synthetically optimize these parameters. It can provide effective guidance to the practical manufacturing of MEMS. Further research should focuses on the MEMS self-assembly experiment to intensively understand the relationship between the pad sizes, pad position, solder paste volume, hinge position, lock position and intermetallic compounds and the final assembly angle.

Design of a Kangaroo Inspired Hopping Robot for Unrestricted Locomotion and Controller Development

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Curtis ◽  
James Mynderse ◽  
Hamid Vejdani
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Response ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Reduced Order Model ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Order Model ◽  
Reduced Order ◽  
Gait Performance ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Hopping Robot ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Inspired by the agility and maneuverability of running kangaroos, a prototype robot was developed using a reduced order model to constrain the system. Both passive and active models were used to understand the relationship between system parameters and gait performance. A frequency response experiment was performed on the prototype to quantify the relationship between design parameters and system responses. Additionally, preliminary tail controllers were tested. Based on the results of the initial platform, a new robot was designed and built as a platform for the study of three dimensional hopping.

FEM Model for Pipeline Analysis of Ice Scour: A Critical Review

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Konuk ◽  
Abdelfdettah Fredj
Keyword(s):  
Current Model ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Burial Depth ◽  
Line Pipe ◽  
Shell Elements ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
Pipe Geometry ◽  
Pipeline Design

This paper presents results from two different Finite Element (FE) pipeline ice-scour models employing pipe and shell elements that incorporate large deformations and metal plasticity. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects and implications of some of the main pipeline design parameters on the response of the pipeline determined by using Winkler models and soil displacements that are based on an empirical scour function commonly used in recent literature. The current model is two dimensional in terms of deformed pipe geometry and incorporates temperature and pressure stiffness effects. A detailed study of the soil displacements underneath and around the scour and a three-dimensional continuum based ice-soil-pipe interaction model is being presented in a different paper. The paper discusses the limitations and implications of the Winkler modeling and compares results obtained using different Winkler spring models. It illustrates the effects of pipe temperature (and pressure), pipe burial depth, and scour width. A comparison of pipe response using shell and pipe elements is also presented. This paper presents results from the FE models for a typical gathering pipeline. The pipe is taken to be a 16 inch diameter and 0.75 inch wall thickness API 5L X65 Specification line pipe.

Microscale fibre alignment by a three-dimensional sessile drop on a wettable pad

2007 ◽  
Vol 574 ◽  
pp. 179-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. N. REZNIK ◽  
W. SALALHA ◽  
A. L. YARIN ◽  
E. ZUSSMAN
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Optical Fibre ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Reasonable Agreement ◽  
Sessile Drop ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stage Ii ◽  
Drop Surface ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Surface Tension Forces

Fluidic assembly provides solutions for assembling particles with sizes from nanometres to centimetres. Fluidic techniques based on patterned shapes of monolayers and capillary forces are widely used to assemble microfabrication devices. Usually, for self-assembly, the precondition is that the components must be mobile in a fluidic environment. In the present work, a shape-directed fluidic self-assembly of rod-like microstructures, such as an optical fibre on a wettable pad is demonstrated experimentally with submicrometre positioning precision. A model of the process is proposed, which accounts for the following two stages of the orientation of a fibre submerged in a sessile drop: (i) the drop melting and spreading over a wettable pad; (ii) fibre reorientation related to the surface-tension-driven shrinkage of the drop surface area. At the end of stage (ii), the fibre is oriented along the pad. The experimental results for the optical-fibre assembly by a solder joint have been compared to the modelling results, and a reasonable agreement has been found. The major outcome of the experiments and modelling is that surface tension forces on the fibre piercing a drop align the fibre rather than the flow owing to the spreading of the drop over the horizontal pad, i.e. stage (ii) mostly contributes to the alignment.

Resin Self-Alignment Processes for Self-Assembly Systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Min Kim ◽  
Kiyokazu Yasuda ◽  
Kozo Fujimoto
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Fundamental Concept ◽  
The Self ◽  
Oscillatory Motion ◽  
Assembly Systems ◽  
The Relationship

We have demonstrated the self-alignment processes using surface tension of the resin material for the self-assembly systems. It has been known that the surface tension of the resin material is too low to achieve the self-alignment capability. This paper presents a fundamental concept and principles of resin self-alignment processes. The numerical analysis is conducted to enhance understandings of resin self-alignment behavior and the relationship between process-related parameters. It was proved that resin self-alignment is different from the oscillatory motion of solder self-alignment and shows overdamped motion by the experiment. We could achieve the precise alignment of less than 0.4 μm.

Three-Dimensional Modeling of Solder Shape for the Design of Solder Self-Assembled Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Kladitis ◽  
Kevin F. Harsh ◽  
Victor M. Bright ◽  
Y. C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Mechanical Systems ◽  
Liquid Solder ◽  
Shape Model ◽  
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ◽  
Minimum Surface ◽  
Three Dimensional Modeling ◽  
Dimensional Modeling

Abstract Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) can be assembled by harnessing the surface tension of liquid solder. In order to assemble the MEMS to precise positions, the shape of the solder, of a given volume, must be known. This paper presents two methods of modeling the shape of solder wetted between two MEMS plates. One method accurately models the solder shape by finding the minimum surface energy shape. A second, less accurate but faster, method approximates the solder shape using simple geometric shapes. The geometric shape model can be trained to be just as accurate as the minimum surface energy model.

CRITICAL SURFACE TENSION, CRITICAL SURFACE ENERGY AND PARACHOR OF MnSO3 THIN FILM

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (03) ◽  
pp. 1650009 ◽  
Author(s):  
İ. A. KARIPER
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Thin Films ◽  
Surface Tension ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Film Thickness ◽  
Critical Surface ◽  
Critical Surface Tension ◽  
Average Grain Size ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the critical surface energy of manganese sulfite (MnSO[Formula: see text] crystalline thin film, produced via chemical bath deposition (CBD) on substrates. In addition, parachor, which is an important parameter of chemical physics, and its relationship with grain size, film thickness, etc., has been investigated for thin films. For this purpose, MnSO3 thin films were deposited at room temperature using different deposition times. Structural properties of the films, such as film thickness and average grain size, were examined using X-ray diffraction; film thickness and surface properties were measured by and atomic force microscope; and critical surface tension of MnSO3 thin films was measured with Optical Tensiometer and calculated using Zisman method. The results showed that critical surface tension and parachor of the films have varied with average grain size and film thickness. Critical surface tension was calculated as 32.97, 24.55, 21.03 and 12.76[Formula: see text]mN/m for 14.66, 30.84, 37.07 and 44.56[Formula: see text]nm grain sizes, respectively. Film thickness and average grain size have been increased with the deposition time and they were found to be negatively correlated with surface tension and parachor. The relationship between film thickness and parachor was found as [Formula: see text] whereas the relationship between average grain size and parachor was found as [Formula: see text] We also showed the relationships between parachor and some thin films parameters.

In vitro and in vivo polysaccharides assembly: ultrastructural and cytochemical study of growing plant cell wall components.

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-435
Author(s):  
D. Reis ◽  
B. Vian ◽  
J. C. Roland
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Plant Cell Wall ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Wall Components

Wall morphogenesis in higher plants is a problem still open to controversy. Until now the possibility of a transmembrane control and the involvement of microtubules were mostly envisaged. Self-assembly processes have been observed in the case of walls of Chlamydomonas and bacteria. Spontaneous gelling interactions between xanthan and galactomannan from Ceratonia have been analyzed very recently. The present work provides indications that some processes of spontaneous aggregation could occur in higher plants during the formation and expansion of cell wall.Observations were performed on hypocotyl of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) for which growth characteristics and wall composition have been previously defined.In situ, the walls of actively growing cells (primary walls) show an ordered three-dimensional organization (fig. 1). The wall is typically polylamellate with multifibrillar layers alternately transverse and longitudinal. Between these layers intermediate strata exist in which the orientation of microfibrils progressively rotates. Thus a progressive change in the morphogenetic activity occurs.

The nucleation of cavities at grain boundaries

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 288-291
Author(s):  
P. J. Goodhew
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Radiation Damage ◽  
Impurity Concentration ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Nucleation And Growth ◽  
Phase Boundaries ◽  
Cavity Nucleation ◽  
Spherical Bubble

Cavity nucleation and growth at grain and phase boundaries is of concern because it can lead to failure during creep and can lead to embrittlement as a result of radiation damage. Two major types of cavity are usually distinguished: The term bubble is applied to a cavity which contains gas at a pressure which is at least sufficient to support the surface tension (2g/r for a spherical bubble of radius r and surface energy g). The term void is generally applied to any cavity which contains less gas than this, but is not necessarily empty of gas. A void would therefore tend to shrink in the absence of any imposed driving force for growth, whereas a bubble would be stable or would tend to grow. It is widely considered that cavity nucleation always requires the presence of one or more gas atoms. However since it is extremely difficult to prepare experimental materials with a gas impurity concentration lower than their eventual cavity concentration there is little to be gained by debating this point.

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