Simulation of Electrostatic Actuation in Interdigitated Comb Drive MEMS Resonator for Energy Harvester Applications

International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications 2016

Sathya, S.^1 ; Pavithra, M.^1 ; Muruganand, S.^1

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India^1

关键词: Electrostatic actuation;    Energy Harvester;    Energy harvesting systems;    Interdigitated combs;    MEMS resonators;    Resonance frequencies;    Second-order systemss;    Two-dimensional structures;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/149/1/012050/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/149/1/012050

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents an actuation mechanism based on the interdigitated comb drive MEMS resonator. The important role of that device is to establish MEMS resonators for the second order systems. Comb drive model is one of the basic model which uses the principle of electrostatic and force can be generated for the capacitive sensors. This work is done by overlapping movable and fixed comb fingers which produces an energy. The specific range of the polyimide material properties of young's modulus of 3.1GPa and density of 1300 Kg/m3. Results are shown in the structural domain performance of a lateral motion which corresponds to the applying voltage between the interdigitated comb fingers. It has laterally driven about 40pm with driving voltage. Also the resonance frequency 24Hz and 15Hz with high quality factors are depending on the spring length 260pm and 360pm and structure thickness of 2μm and 5 μm. Here Finite element method (FEM) is used to simulate the various physics scenario and it is designed as two dimensional structure multiphysics domain. The prototype of comb drive MEMS resonator has been suitable for energy harvesting system applications.