scholarly journals Design and Characteristic Analysis of a MEMS Piezo-Driven Recirculating Inkjet Printhead Using Lumped Element Modeling

Micromachines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shah ◽  
Lee ◽  
Hur
Keyword(s):  
Resonance Frequency ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Fem Simulation ◽  
Pressure Chamber ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Characteristic Analysis ◽  
Helmholtz Resonance ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Lumped Element Model ◽  
Inkjet Printhead

The recirculation of ink in an inkjet printhead system keeps the ink temperature and viscosity constant, and leads to the development of a high-performance device. Herein, we propose a recirculating piezo-driven micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)-based inkjet printhead that has a pressure chamber, a nozzle, and double restrictors. The design and characteristic analysis are performed using a two-port lumped element model (LEM) to investigate the effect of design parameters on the system responses. Using LEM, the jetting pressure at the pressure chamber, velocity at the nozzle inlet, meniscus pressure, and Helmholtz resonance frequency are predicted and the comparative analysis of the jetting pressure and velocity between LEM and the finite element method (FEM) simulation is conducted to validate our proposed LEM method. Furthermore, the effect of a change in major design parameters on the jetting pressure, velocity, and Helmholtz resonance frequency is analyzed. On the basis of this analysis, the optimized device dimensions are finalized. From our analysis, it is also concluded that the restrictor is more sensitive than the pressure chamber in terms of their variations in depth. As the cross-talk effect can occur due to an array of hundreds or thousands of nozzles, we investigated the effect of a single activated nozzle on the non-activated neighboring nozzles, as well as the effect of multi-activated nozzles on a single central nozzle using our proposed LEM.

scholarly journals New architectures for micromechanical coupled beam array filters

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bouchaala ◽  
R. R. A. Syms
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Wave Theory ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Rapid Identification ◽  
Plane Motion ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Beam Array ◽  
Lumped Element Model

AbstractCoupled resonator filters implemented as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) offer performance advantages as band-pass filters at MHz frequencies. Here new designs based on resonant cavities for acoustic slow waves are developed to allow alternative frequency responses. Derivation of the lumped element model for coupled beam systems with in-plane motion from Rayleigh–Ritz perturbation theory is first reviewed. Departures from ideal behaviour caused by mechanical and electrostatic detuning are resolved. Slow wave theory is then used to develop linear array topologies with novel responses including band-stop and comb filtering with controlled filter roll-off. A systematic procedure is developed to allow rapid identification of design parameters without the need for lengthy numerical simulation, using the lumped element, stiffness matrix and finite element methods to investigate the layout parameters of initial design concepts, detailed mechanical effects and detailed electrostatic effects, respectively. High performance is demonstrated, with good agreement between the models.

Modeling and Optimizing Industrial Inkjet Printhead for Printable Electronics Fabrication

2015 ◽  
Vol 748 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Lian Bo Ma ◽  
Mao Wei He ◽  
Kun Yuan Hu ◽  
Yun Long Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Printable Electronics ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Drop On Demand ◽  
Printing Quality ◽  
Lumped Element Model ◽  
Driving Waveform ◽  
Nonlinear Behaviors ◽  
Inkjet Printhead

The most significant issues in printable electronics fabrication are the printing quality and efficiency delivered by drop-on-demand (DOD) industrial inkjet printhead. Aiming to characterize the nonlinear behaviors of piezoelectric inkjet printhead, the dynamic lumped element model (DLEM) is proposed to cast the original LEM into a time-varying and nonlinear fashion. At the same time , the PSO-based optimization for paramenters is incorporated in DLEM. Due to new characteristics, DLEM can accurately simulate the inkjet-printed nanosilver droplet formation process and effectively predicate optimal combinations of high-frequency driving waveform with high printing quality. From extensive experimental studies, the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed DLEM is validated.

scholarly journals Mechanical Synchronization of MEMS Electrostatically Driven Coupled Beam Filters

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1191
Author(s):  
Richard Syms ◽  
Adam Bouchaala
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Finite Element Models ◽  
Q Factor ◽  
Exact Mass ◽  
High Q ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Lumped Element Model ◽  
Coupled Beams ◽  
Spurious Modes

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) bandpass filters based on arrays of electrostatically driven coupled beams have been demonstrated at MHz frequencies. High performance follows from the high Q-factor of mechanical resonators, and electrostatic transduction allows tuning, matching and actuation. For high-order filters, there is a conflict between the transduction mechanism and the coupling arrangement needed for dynamic synchronization: it is not possible to achieve synchronization and tuning simultaneously using a single voltage. Here we propose a general solution, based on the addition of mass-loaded beams at the ends of the array. These beams deflect for direct current (DC) voltages, and therefore allow electrostatic tuning, but do not respond to in-band alternating current (AC) voltages and hence do not interfere with synchronization. Spurious modes generated by these beams may be damped, leaving a good approximation to the desired response. The approach is introduced using a lumped element model and verified using stiffness matrix and finite element models for in-plane arrays with parallel plate drives and shown to be tolerant of the exact mass value. The principle may allow compensation of fabrication-induced variations in complex filters.

scholarly journals Drop-on-Demand Inkjet Printhead Performance Enhancement by Dynamic Lumped Element Modeling for Printable Electronics Fabrication

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maowei He ◽  
Liling Sun ◽  
Kunyuan Hu ◽  
Yunlong Zhu ◽  
Lianbo Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Printable Electronics ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Drop On Demand ◽  
Printing Quality ◽  
Lumped Element Model ◽  
Analytic Models ◽  
Nonlinear Behaviors ◽  
Inkjet Printhead

The major challenge in printable electronics fabrication is the print resolution and accuracy. In this paper, the dynamic lumped element model (DLEM) is proposed to directly simulate an inkjet-printed nanosilver droplet formation process and used for predictively controlling jetting characteristics. The static lumped element model (LEM) previously developed by the authors is extended to dynamic model with time-varying equivalent circuits to characterize nonlinear behaviors of piezoelectric printhead. The model is then used to investigate how performance of the piezoelectric ceramic actuator influences jetting characteristics of nanosilver ink. Finally, the proposed DLEM is applied to predict the printing quality using nanosilver ink. Experimental results show that, compared to other analytic models, the proposed DLEM has a simpler structure with the sufficient simulation and prediction accuracy.

Novel on-chip spiral inductors with back hollow structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Wang ◽  
Houfang Liu ◽  
Xiaoning Li ◽  
Haochuan Qiu ◽  
Yi Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resonance Frequency ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Fem Simulation ◽  
Hollow Structure ◽  
High Resistivity ◽  
Q Factor ◽  
Line Spacing ◽  
Spiral Inductors ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Important Design

In this work, on-chip spiral inductors with back hollow structure have been prepared on the 500 [Formula: see text] thick silicon substrate with high resistivity [Formula: see text]. The silicon underneath the inductor region has been completely etched by deep etching process in order to reduce the substrate eddy current losses. Several types of square spiral on-chip inductors with different metal width (w) and line spacing (s) in the case of [Formula: see text] were fabricated. The experimental results are verified by FEM simulation using HFSS software. The results show that the Q-factor and self-resonance frequency of back hollow structure inductors are both enhanced compared with the conventional inductors. Furthermore, narrower width of coils for the on-chip spiral inductors with back hollow structure can result in higher Q-factor, inductance L and self-resonance frequency, which provide some important design guides for the fabrication of the high performance on-chip inductors.

scholarly journals Modeling the Piezoelectric Cantilever Resonator with Different Width Layers

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Zhenxi Liu ◽  
Jiamin Chen ◽  
Xudong Zou
Keyword(s):  
Resonance Frequency ◽  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Silicon Oxide ◽  
Fem Simulation ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Piezoelectric Cantilever ◽  
Simulation And Experiment ◽  
Easy Integration ◽  
Tip Displacement

The piezoelectric cantilever resonator is used widely in many fields because of its perfect design, easy-to-control process, easy integration with the integrated circuit. The tip displacement and resonance frequency are two important characters of the piezoelectric cantilever resonator and many models are used to characterize them. However, these models are only suitable for the piezoelectric cantilever with the same width layers. To accurately characterize the piezoelectric cantilever resonators with different width layers, a novel model is proposed for predicting the tip displacement and resonance frequency. The results show that the model is in good agreement with the finite element method (FEM) simulation and experiment measurements, the tip displacement error is no more than 6%, the errors of the first, second, and third-order resonance frequency between theoretical values and measured results are 1.63%, 1.18%, and 0.51%, respectively. Finally, a discussion of the tip displacement of the piezoelectric cantilever resonator when the second layer is null, electrode, or silicon oxide (SiO2) is presented, and the utility of the model as a design tool for specifying the tip displacement and resonance frequency is demonstrated. Furthermore, this model can also be extended to characterize the piezoelectric cantilever with n-layer film or piezoelectric doubly clamped beam.

scholarly journals A computationally efficient hybrid 2D–3D subwoofer model

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad H. Bokhari ◽  
Martin Berggren ◽  
Daniel Noreland ◽  
Eddie Wadbro
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Model ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Average Response ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Lumped Element Model

AbstractA subwoofer generates the lowest frequency range in loudspeaker systems. Subwoofers are used in audio systems for live concerts, movie theatres, home theatres, gaming consoles, cars, etc. During the last decades, numerical simulations have emerged as a cost- and time-efficient complement to traditional experiments in the design process of different products. The aim of this study is to reduce the computational time of simulating the average response for a given subwoofer design. To this end, we propose a hybrid 2D–3D model that reduces the computational time significantly compared to a full 3D model. The hybrid model describes the interaction between different subwoofer components as interacting modules whose acoustic properties can partly be pre-computed. This allows us to efficiently compute the performance of different subwoofer design layouts. The results of the hybrid model are validated against both a lumped element model and a full 3D model over a frequency band of interest. The hybrid model is found to be both accurate and computationally efficient.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Static Mapping for Dynamic Space-Shared Multi-task Processing on FPGAs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umar Ibrahim Minhas ◽  
Roger Woods ◽  
Georgios Karakonstantis
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Design Space Exploration ◽  
Design Space ◽  
System Throughput ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Temporal Constraints ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Task Processing ◽  
High Level ◽  
Performance Computing

AbstractWhilst FPGAs have been used in cloud ecosystems, it is still extremely challenging to achieve high compute density when mapping heterogeneous multi-tasks on shared resources at runtime. This work addresses this by treating the FPGA resource as a service and employing multi-task processing at the high level, design space exploration and static off-line partitioning in order to allow more efficient mapping of heterogeneous tasks onto the FPGA. In addition, a new, comprehensive runtime functional simulator is used to evaluate the effect of various spatial and temporal constraints on both the existing and new approaches when varying system design parameters. A comprehensive suite of real high performance computing tasks was implemented on a Nallatech 385 FPGA card and show that our approach can provide on average 2.9 × and 2.3 × higher system throughput for compute and mixed intensity tasks, while 0.2 × lower for memory intensive tasks due to external memory access latency and bandwidth limitations. The work has been extended by introducing a novel scheduling scheme to enhance temporal utilization of resources when using the proposed approach. Additional results for large queues of mixed intensity tasks (compute and memory) show that the proposed partitioning and scheduling approach can provide higher than 3 × system speedup over previous schemes.

scholarly journals A general theory of glacier surges

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (253) ◽  
pp. 701-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. I. Benn ◽  
A. C. Fowler ◽  
I. Hewitt ◽  
H. Sevestre
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Frictional Heating ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Geothermal Heating ◽  
Lumped Element ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Flow Speeds ◽  
Glacier Surges ◽  
Lumped Element Model ◽  
Polythermal Glacier

AbstractWe present the first general theory of glacier surging that includes both temperate and polythermal glacier surges, based on coupled mass and enthalpy budgets. Enthalpy (in the form of thermal energy and water) is gained at the glacier bed from geothermal heating plus frictional heating (expenditure of potential energy) as a consequence of ice flow. Enthalpy losses occur by conduction and loss of meltwater from the system. Because enthalpy directly impacts flow speeds, mass and enthalpy budgets must simultaneously balance if a glacier is to maintain a steady flow. If not, glaciers undergo out-of-phase mass and enthalpy cycles, manifest as quiescent and surge phases. We illustrate the theory using a lumped element model, which parameterizes key thermodynamic and hydrological processes, including surface-to-bed drainage and distributed and channelized drainage systems. Model output exhibits many of the observed characteristics of polythermal and temperate glacier surges, including the association of surging behaviour with particular combinations of climate (precipitation, temperature), geometry (length, slope) and bed properties (hydraulic conductivity). Enthalpy balance theory explains a broad spectrum of observed surging behaviour in a single framework, and offers an answer to the wider question of why the majority of glaciers do not surge.

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