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Analysis of the Effect of Spatial Uncertainties on the Dynamic Behavior of Electrostatic Microactuators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2016

Aravind Alwan  and
Narayana R. Aluru
Aravind Alwan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Narayana R. Aluru*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email addresses:aalwan2@illinois.edu (A. Alwan), aluru@illinois.edu (N. R. Aluru)
*Corresponding author. Email addresses:aalwan2@illinois.edu (A. Alwan), aluru@illinois.edu (N. R. Aluru)
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Abstract

This paper examines the effect of spatial roughness on the dynamical behaviour of electrostatic microactuators. We develop a comprehensive physical model that comprises a nonlinear electrostatic actuation force aswell as a squeeze-film damping term to accurately simulate the dynamical behavior of a cantilever beam actuator. Spatial roughness is modeled as a nonstationary stochastic process whose parameters can be estimated from profilometric measurements. We propagate the stochastic model through the physical system and examine the resulting uncertainty in the dynamical behavior that manifests as a variation in the quality factor of the device. We identify two distinct, yet coupled, modes of uncertainty propagation in the system, that result from the roughness causing variation in the electrostatic actuation force and the damping pressure, respectively. By artificially turning off each of these modes of propagation in sequence, we demonstrate that the variation in the damping pressure has a greater effect on the damping ratio than that arising from the electrostatic force. Comparison with similar simulations performed using a simplified mass-spring-damper model show that the coupling between these two mechanisms can be captured only when the physical model includes the primary nonlinear interactions along with a proper treatment of spatial variations. We also highlight the difference between nonstationary and stationary covariance formulations by showing that the stationary model is unable to properly capture the full range of variation as compared to its nonstationary counterpart.

Keywords

Uncertainty quantificationmicroelectromechanical systems (MEMS)electrostatic actuationsqueeze-film dampingroughnessrandom processdamping ratio
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Research Article
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , August 2016 , pp. 279 - 300
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Copyright © Global-Science Press 2016 

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