TY - GEN
T1 - Specimen size effect on fatigue properties of surface-micromachined Al-3%Ti thin films
AU - Park, Jun Hyub
AU - Myung, Man Sik
AU - Kim, Yun Jae
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper presents high cycle fatigue properties of an Al-3%Ti thin film, used in a RF (radio-frequency) MEMS switch for a mobile phone and also describes new test method for obtaining static and dynamic characteristics of thin film and reliability evaluation method on MEMS device with thin film developed by authors. Durability should be ensured for such devices under cycling load. Therefore, with the proposed specimen and test procedure, tensile and fatigue tests were performed to obtain mechanical and fatigue properties. The specimen was made with dimensions of 1000μm long, 1.0μm thickness, and 3 kinds of width, 50, 100 and 150μm. High cycle fatigue tests for each width were also performed, from which the fatigue strength coefficient and the fatigue strength exponent were found to be 193MPa and -0.02319 for 50μm, 181MPa and -0.02001 for 100μm, and 164MPa and -0.01322 for 150μm, respectively. We found that the narrower specimen is, the longer fatigue life of Al-3%Ti is and the wider specimen is, the more susceptible to stress level fatigue life of Al-3%Ti was.
AB - This paper presents high cycle fatigue properties of an Al-3%Ti thin film, used in a RF (radio-frequency) MEMS switch for a mobile phone and also describes new test method for obtaining static and dynamic characteristics of thin film and reliability evaluation method on MEMS device with thin film developed by authors. Durability should be ensured for such devices under cycling load. Therefore, with the proposed specimen and test procedure, tensile and fatigue tests were performed to obtain mechanical and fatigue properties. The specimen was made with dimensions of 1000μm long, 1.0μm thickness, and 3 kinds of width, 50, 100 and 150μm. High cycle fatigue tests for each width were also performed, from which the fatigue strength coefficient and the fatigue strength exponent were found to be 193MPa and -0.02319 for 50μm, 181MPa and -0.02001 for 100μm, and 164MPa and -0.01322 for 150μm, respectively. We found that the narrower specimen is, the longer fatigue life of Al-3%Ti is and the wider specimen is, the more susceptible to stress level fatigue life of Al-3%Ti was.
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U2 - 10.1115/MNC2007-21280
DO - 10.1115/MNC2007-21280
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547947225
SN - 0791842657
SN - 9780791842652
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems 2007
SP - 661
EP - 665
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems 2007
T2 - International Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems 2007
Y2 - 10 January 2007 through 13 January 2007
ER -