This first book to cover exclusively and in detail the principles, tools and methods for determining the reliability of microelectromechanical materials, components and devices covers both component materials as well as entire MEMS devices. Divided into two major parts, following a general introductory chapter to reliability issues, the first part looks at the mechanical properties of the materials used in MEMS, explaining in detail the necessary measuring technologies — nanoindenters, bulge methods, bending tests, tensile tests, and others. Part Two treats the actual devices, organized by important device categories such as pressure sensors, inertial sensors, RF MEMS, and optical MEMS.
Table of Content
Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of MEMS Materials and Their Standardization
Elastoplastic Indentation Contact Mechanics of Homogeneous Materials and Coating-Substrate Systems
Thin film Characterization Using the Bulge Test
Uniaxial Tensile Test for MEMS Materials
On-chip Testing of MEMS
Reliability of a Capacitive Pressure Sensor
Inertial Sensors
High-Accuracy, High-Reliability MEMS Accelerometer Reliability of MEMS Variable Optical Attenuator
Reliability of MEMS Variable Optical Attenuator (pages 239-266)
Eco Scan MEMS Resonant Mirror
About the author
Osamu Tabata is Professor in the Department of Microengineering at Kyoto University. He received his MSc and Ph D degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology. From 1981 to 1996, he performed industrial research at Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Aichi, Japan. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Ritsumeikan University in Shiga, Japan, in 1996, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kyoto University in 2003. Osamu Tabata is engaged in the research of micro/nano processes, MEMS and micro/nano system synthetic engineering. He received numerous awards, including the Science News Award and the Research & Development Top 100 Award in 1993 and 1998.
Toshiyuki Tsuchiya is Assistant Professor in the Department of Microengineering at Kyoto University. He received his Ph D from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2002. From 1993 to 2004, he carried out industrial research at Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Aichi, Japan. In 2004, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Kyoto University. Toshiyuki Tsuchiya’s current research is focused on mechanical properties evaluation of micro/nano materials and MEMS and micro/nano system synthetic engineering.
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