In-liquid MEMS assembly by optical trapping

Author

Gullo, Maurizio R. ; Jacot-Descombes, Loic ; Brugger, Juergen

Author_Institution

Microsyst. Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

20-24 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

81

Abstract

This paper presents a novel in-liquid method to manipulate and micro-assemble MEMS in 3D by means of holographic optical trapping and hydrophobic interaction. Up to eight traps can be simultaneously generated with a trapping stiffness of 5 pN/μm each. SU8 cylinders (10μm diameter, 10μm-40μm height) were used as test MEMS, which could be translated with a speed of 6μm/s and rotated at 30 rpm. All forces were calibrated by video tracking the Brownian motion of the trapped MEMS and applying Boltzmann statistics. Selected surfaces of the MEMS parts were rendered hydrophobic and used as assembly sites. Using this approach it was possible to permanently assemble SU8 cylinders.

Keywords

Boltzmann equation; Brownian motion; calibration; electronic engineering computing; holographic optical elements; hydrophobicity; image motion analysis; microassembling; microfabrication; micromechanical devices; radiation pressure; statistics; 3D holographic optical trapping; 3D microassemble MEMS; Boltzmann statistics; Brownian motion; MEMS testing; SU8 cylinder; calibration; hydrophobic interaction; in-liquid MEMS assembly method; manipulation; size 10 mum to 40 mum; trapping stiffness; velocity 6 mum/s; video tracking; Assembly; Biomedical optical imaging; Charge carrier processes; Holographic optical components; Holography; Micromechanical devices; Optical device fabrication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2013 IEEE 26th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1084-6999

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5654-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474181

Filename

6474181