Fatigue properties of surface-micromachined Al-3%Ti thin films

Jun Hyub Park, Man Sik Myung, Yun Jae Kim

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    Abstract

    This paper describes new structure of specimen easy to manipulate, align and grip a thin-film and test machine for a fatigue test. High cycle fatigue test has been performed on tensile type specimen of Al-3%Ti alloy using the newly developed fatigue test machine. The material used in this study was Al-3%Ti thin film, which was used in RF MEMS switch. The structure of the suggested specimen has two holes and several bridges. The holes at centre of grip end are able to make alignment and gripping easy. The bridges are to remove the side support strip easily and extract specimen from wafer without sawing. The test machine was developed using the voice coil of speaker. The new tensile loading system has a load cell with maximum capacity of 0.5N and a non-contact position measuring system based on the principle of capacitance micrometry with O.lnm resolution for displacement measurement. Fatigue tests was performed on 7 specimens. The thickness and width of the thin film of specimen are 1.0μm and 150μm, respectively. The fatigue strength coefficient and the fatigue strength exponent of Al-3%Ti alloy micro-sized specimen are determined to be 164MPa and -0.01322, respectively.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)299-302
    Number of pages4
    JournalKey Engineering Materials
    Volume353-358
    Issue numberPART 1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    EventAsian Pacific Conference for Fracture and Strength (APCFS'06) - Sanya, Hainan Island, China
    Duration: 2006 Nov 222006 Nov 25

    Keywords

    • Fatigue property
    • MEMS material
    • Microstructure
    • Test procedure
    • Thin film

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science
    • Mechanics of Materials
    • Mechanical Engineering

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