| Title |
Fabrication and Experiment of Micromirror with Aluminum Pin-joint |
| Authors |
지창현(Ji, Chang-Hyeon) ; 김용권(Kim, Yong-Gwon) |
| Keywords |
Surface-micromachining ; Micromirror ; Pin-joint ; MOEMS |
| Abstract |
This paper describes the design, fabrication and experiments of surface-micromachined aluminum micromirror array with hidden pin-joints. Instead of the conventional elastic spring components as connection between mirror plate and supporting structure, we used pin-joint composed of pin and staples to support the mirror plate. The placement of pin-joint under the mirror plate makes large active surface area possible. These flexureless micromirrors are driven by electrostatic force. As the mirror plate has discrete deflection angles, the device can be ap;lied to adaptive optics and digitally-operating optical applications. Four-level metal structural layers and semi-cured photoresist sacrificial layers were used in the fabrication process and sacrificial layers were removed by oxygen plasma ashing. Static characteristics of fabricated samples were measured and compared with modeling results. |