• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1524-1525
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• 2007

A flexible tactile sensor module based on polyimide matrix integrated with sensing elements and pluggable terminals connector was fabricated by polymer micromachining technology for robotic applications. The tactile sensor arrays are composed of $4{\times}4$, $8{\times}8$ and $16{\times}16$ sensing elements connected with pluggable terminals connector, respectively. Especially, both the tactile sensor array and the pluggable terminals are formed in the sensor module during the fabrication process. The fabricated tactile sensor module is measured continuously in the normal force range of $0{\sim}1N$ with tactile sensor auto-evaluation system. The value of resistance is relatively increased linearly with normal force in the overall range. The variation rate of resistance is about 2.0%/N in the range of $0{\sim}0.6N$ and 1.5%/N in the range of $0.6{\sim}1N$. Also, the flexibility of the sensing module is adequate to be placed on any curved surface as cylinder because the matrix consists of polymer and metal thin film.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.53-57
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• 2014

We describe the preparation of highly-ordered etching pits on the Nb foil through a micromachining. The effects of electrochemical polishing on the formation of uniformly-patterned protective epoxy layer was investigated. Unlike the previous process using $O_2$ plasma, well-ordered etched pits were prepared without any dry processes. As a result, the Nb foil with the well-ordered pits of $10{\mu}m{\times}5{\mu}m$ could be obtained by electrochemical etching in methanolic electrolytes for 10 min.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.356-363
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• 1998

Using the results analyzed by FEM(Finite Element Method). the microheaters with the stress-balanced $Si_3N_4$(150 nm)/$SiO_2$(300 nm)/$Si_3N_4$(150 nm) diaphragms were fabricated by silicon micromachining techniques. Pt was used as microheater materials. Pt temperature sensor was fabricated to measure the temperature of microheaters. Resistance of temperature sensor and power dissipation of microheater were measured and calculated at the various temperatures. The thermal distribution of heater was examined by a IR thermoviewer. Measured and simulated results are compared and analyzed. The temperature coefficient of resistance of heater was about $0.00379/^{\circ}C$. Pt heater showed the power dissipation of about 51 mW at $300^{\circ}C$ and a uniform thermal distribution on the surface.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.37-44
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• 2004

This paper describes a new GaAs-based surface-micromachined microstrip line supported by dielectric post and air-gapped signal line with ground metal. This new type of dielectric-supported air-gapped microstripline(DAML) structure is developed using surface micromachining techniques to provide easy means of airbridge connection between the signal lines and to archive low losses at millimeter-wave frequency band with wide impedance range. Each DAMLs with the length of 5 mm are fabricated and the measured characteristics are compared with those of the conventional microstrip transmission line. These transmission lines are composed of 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ height of signal line, post size of 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ ${\times}$ 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and post height of 9 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. By elevating the signal lines from the substrate using the micromachining technology, the substrate dielectric loss can be reduced Compared with of the conventional microstrip transmission line showing 7.5 dB/cm loss at 50 GHz, the loss can be reduced to 1.1 dB/cm loss at 50 GHz.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.164-167
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• 2006

Calorimeter is one of widely used biosensors. Conventional or existing calorimeters are realized directly on a silicon wafer which has very high thermal conductivity. It results in decreasing temperature difference between junctions and it makes a sensitivity of calorimeter to be decreased. In this study, the microcalorimeter was made by using MEMS(Micro Electro Mechanical Systems)-technology and hot junctions of the microcalorimeter are released from a silicon substrate to reduce loss of generated heat by reactions between biomolecules. Sensitivity of the released microcalorimeter was 18 mV/M which is 1.5 times higher than another calorimeters on silicon substrate by reactions between biotin and streptavidin.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.246-252
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• 2004

Presented in this Paper is a Micro Machining Service .(MIMS) based on the World Wide Web technologies. In order to ensure easy access to the service, the web browsers are used as the user interface. The pan geometry as an STL file is uploaded with process parameter for 3-axis CNC milling. Depending on the predefined user level, novice or expert, the user interface requires different parameters for process planning. An STL-based CAM resides in the server and automatically provides NC codes upon user's request. Tool-paths for scanning and pencil-cut, which are interference-free and precise, are created by the curve-based polyhedral machining method. A couple of sample parts were fabricated by a micro endmill with 127 fm diameter. From the tests, the parts fabricated by scanning followed by pencil-cut resulted in less error(within 2%) than the parts machined only by scanning tool-path.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1456-1457
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 박막 PZT(Pb(Zr,Ti)O3)를 이용한 d33모드의 자가 발전 소자를 설계 및 제작 하였다. 자가 발전 소자는 진동 에너지를 압전 현상을 통해 전기 에너지로 변환하는 소자로서, 제안한 구조는 단일 외팔보가 아닌 20개 이상의 외팔보를 원형으로 집적한 구조를 갖기 때문에, 기존의 단일 외팔보 위주의 자가발전 소자보다 출력 전력이 우수하다. 자가 발전 소자의 성능 최적화를 위해 유한요소기법(FEM)을 통해 기계적 특성을 분석하였으며, 마이크로 머시닝 기법을 이용하여 초박형의 자가 발전 소자를 제작할 수 있었다. 제작된 자가발전 소자는 $1.2mm\times1.2mm\times0.5mm$ (높이)의 크기를 갖는다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11d
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• pp.1142-1144
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• 1999

A 4-beam cross type silicon elastic body was fabricated for the electromagnetic type vibration micro transducer. To improve energy transfer efficiency, the structure and size of vibration transducer were optimized by the FEA simulation package. Experimental results of the fabricated transducer shows $0.5{\sim}8$ dyne of vibration force at the condition of $1{\sim}4$ mA of current source $100{\sim}7000$ Hz of frequency band width. These results presented the useful applications for micro actuators and sensors.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.143-148
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• 2016

A micro end mill is one of the precise tools used in machining ultra-precision products such as microchannel and micropatterned mold. To achieve the required precision of these products, several studies investigated the cutting force, burr formation, and burr generation mechanism of micro end mills; however, there are few studies on the alignment of micro tools, which is the foundation of machining. Hence, in this investigation, relation expressions were derived to determine the relation between the misalignment parameters and the machining accuracy. At the same time, the effect of the machining parameters was analyzed using a multiple linear regression analysis and the analysis of variance. The results indicate that the tilting angle of a micro tool has more influence on the machining accuracy than other parameters.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.408-413
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• 1996

A self-diagnostic, air-damped, piezoresitive, cantilever-beam microaccelerometer has been designed, fabricated and tested for applications to automotive electronic airbag systems. A skew-symmetric proof-mass has been designed for self-diagnostic capability and zero transverse sensitivity. Two kinds of multi-step anisotropic etching processes are developed for beam thickness control and fillet-rounding formation, UV-curing paste has been used for sillicon-to-glass bounding. The resonant frequency of 2.07kHz has been measured from the fabricated devices. The sensitivity of 195 $\mu{V}$/g is obtained with a nonlinearity of 4% over $\pm$50g ranges. Flat amplitude response and frequency-proportional phase response have been obserbed, It is shown that the design and fabricaiton methods developed in the present study yield a simple, practical and effective mean for improving the performance, reliability as well as the reproducibility of the accelerometers.