High-Performance Piezoelectric MEMS Manufacturing & Application on Micro Power Generators (CRADA Final Report)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- ActiveMEMS LLC, Berkeley, CA (United States)
This project aimed to develop and characterize a micro-fabrication technology for wafer-scale heterogeneous integration of bulk piezoelectric materials on silicon substrates that could enable manufacturing of high-performance micro transducers. Typical technical challenges for piezoelectric microfabrication technologies are high-temperature processing, non-uniform film quality, and low process repeatability, which will be addressed during this project. Progress was made on preliminary research towards development of a technology platform that will enable a new micro-fabrication process to provide the highest electromechanical coupling among any other thin/thick-film deposition methods available today. This work has tested and characterized samples that we hope will further our goal of refining and enabling existing micro transducers to achieve unprecedentedly high performance. This project focused solely on the characterization of the proposed microfabrication process technology, and it did not consist of design or manufacturing of new transducers, such as sensors, actuators or energy harvesters based on this fabrication process. Future work will be aimed at the research and development of process steps specifically to enable integration of on-chip electronics with piezoelectric materials.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); ActiveMEMS LLC, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1874029
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-2001464
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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