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Thin Film MEMS

Publications  (since 2005)

(For reprints of these publications or those published prior to 2004, please contact Virginia Chu or João Pedro Conde)

 

2005

  • “Thin film paddle microresonators with high quality factors fabricated at temperatures below 100 ºC”, J. Gaspar, T. Adrega, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Technical Digest, IEEE MEMS 2005 (2005).

  • “Electrostatic Microresonators from doped hydrogenated amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon thin films”, J. Gaspar, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, IEEE J. Microelectromechanical Systems 14, 1082 (2005).

  • “Electrostatically actuated thin-film amorphous silicon microbridge resonators”, J. Gaspar, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 094501 (2005).

  • “Fabrication and Electromechanical Properties of  Conductive Polymer Microbridge Actuators”, G. Zhang, J. Gaspar, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 872, J11.3 (2005).

  • “Electrostatically-Actuated Polymer Microresonators”, G. Zhang, J. Gaspar, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Appl. Phys. Lett  87, 104104 (2005).

2006

  • “Micromechanical properties of amorphous, nanocrystalline and transition phase Hot-Wire thin-silicon MEMS”, S.B. Patil, T. Adrega, A. Pimentel, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Non-Cryst. Solids 352 1234 (2006).

  • “Electrostatically actuated resonance of amorphous silicon microresonators in water”, T. Adrega, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 143109 (2006).

  • “Thin film silicon MEMS microresonators fabricated by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition”, S.B. Patil, T. Adrega, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, J. Micromech. Microeng. 16, 2730 (2006).

  • “Performance of thin-film a-Si:H microresonators in dissipative media”, T. Adrega, D.M.F. Prazeres, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 910, A20-02 (2006)

2007

  • “Conductive Blended Polymer MEMS Microresonators”, G. Zhang, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, IEEE J. Microelectromechanical Systems, in press.

  • “Electrostatically-actuated conducting polymer microbridges”, G. Zhang, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 094308 (2007).

  • “Electrostatically actuated bilayer polyimide-based microresonator”, G. Zhang, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, J. Micromech. Microeng. 17 797 (2007).

  • “Surface micromachining of a thin film microresonator using dry decomposition of a polymer sacrificial layer”, S.B. Patil, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, J. Vac. Sci. and Technol. B 25, 455 (2007).

  •  “Flexural and torsional vibration modes in low temperature thin film silicon paddle resonators”, T. Adrega, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, App. Phys. Lett. 90, 233502 (2007).

  • “Resonance of electrostatically actuated thin-film amorphous silicon microelectromechanical systems microresonators in aqueous solutions: effect of solution conductivity and viscosity”, T. Adrega, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 094308 (2007) 

  • “Performance of Thin Film Silicon MEMS on Flexible Plastic Substrates”, S. Patil, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 989, 989-A10-02 (2007).

2008

  • “Performance of thin film silicon MEMS on flexible plastic substrates”, S.B. Patil, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, Sens. Actuators A: Phys., 144, 201 (2008).

  • “Hybrid magnetoresistive/microelectromechanical devices for static field modulation and sensor 1/f noise cancelation”, A. Guedes, S.B. Patil, S. Cardoso, V. Chu, J.P. Conde and P.P. Freitas,  J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07E924 (2008).

  • “Amorphous silicon thin-film transistors gated through an electrolyte solution”, D. Gonçalves, D.M.F. Prazeres, V. Chu and J.P. Conde, IEEE Electron Device Lett. 29, 1030 (2008).

  • “Hybrid magnetic tunnel junction – MEMS high frequency field modulator for 1/f noise suppression”, A. Guedes, S. Patil, P. Wisniowski, V. Chu, J.P. Conde and P.P. Freitas, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, IEEE Trans. Magn. 44, 2554 (2008).

2009

  • Comparison of the mechanical and resonance properties of thin film silicon MEMS fabricated at 110 and 250 ºC”, S.B. Patil, V. Chu, J.P. Conde, J. Micromech. Microeng. 19, 025018 (2009).

  •  “On chip magnetoresistive detection of resonance in micro-cantilever”, S.B. Patil, V. Chu, A. Guedes, S. Cardoso, P.P. Freitas, J.P. Conde, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 023502 (2009)

  •  “Microscopic and macroscopic manifestations of percolation transitions in a semiconductor composite”, D. Azulay, O. Millo, E. Savir, J.P. Conde, I. Balberg Phys. Rev. B 80, 245312 (2009).

  • Mass Sensing using an Amorphous Silicon MEMS resonator”, S.B. Patil, V. Chu, J.P. Conde, Proceedings of the Eurosensors XXIII conference, Procedia Chemistry 1, 1063 (2009).

2010

  • J. Gaspar, O. Paul, V. Chu, J.P. Conde, “Mechanical properties of thin silicon films deposited at low temperatures by PECVD”, J. Micromech. Microeng. 20, 035022 (2010). doi:10.1088/0960-1317/20/3/035022

2011

  • A. Gualdino, V. Chu, J.P. Conde, “Thin film amorphous silicon bulk-mode disk resonators fabricated on glass substrates”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1299, (2011), DOI: 10.1557/opl.2011.62 .

  • P. M. Sousa, V. Chu, J. P. Conde, “Reliability and stability of thin-film amorphous silicon MEMS on glass substrates”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1299, (2011), DOI: 10.1557/opl.2011.253 .

 

 

 


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