As a PhD student at Stanford, I redesigned MEMS structures. A lot of MEMS is based on intuition and on past experience, so it's time to start making better structures, with better shapes, that not only work, but work well and reliably.
We've selected topology optimization as an invaluable tool to achieve these goals. A few simple problems are solved to illustrate the method.
But the power topology optimization provides to a MEMS designer is best demonstrated by our examples of RF MEMS capacitive switch optimizations for which we systematically and efficiently designed temperature and stress insensitive membranes.
Extensive experimental data confirms that the switches perform as designed by the optimizations, that they are highly reliable, and that our simulation models are accurate.
Please have fun looking through the website, and feel free to address any ideas, suggestions, or questions to:
Mandy Philippine, mandyp@stanford.edu.
We've selected topology optimization as an invaluable tool to achieve these goals. A few simple problems are solved to illustrate the method.
But the power topology optimization provides to a MEMS designer is best demonstrated by our examples of RF MEMS capacitive switch optimizations for which we systematically and efficiently designed temperature and stress insensitive membranes.
Extensive experimental data confirms that the switches perform as designed by the optimizations, that they are highly reliable, and that our simulation models are accurate.
Please have fun looking through the website, and feel free to address any ideas, suggestions, or questions to:
Mandy Philippine, mandyp@stanford.edu.
