Modeling, design and testing of the electrostatic shuffle motor

Tas, Niels and Wissink, Jeroen and Sander, Louis and Lammerink, Theo and Elwenspoek, Miko (1998) Modeling, design and testing of the electrostatic shuffle motor. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 1998 (70). pp. 171-178. ISSN 0924-4247

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Abstract:	The shuffle motor is a linear electrostatic stepper motor employing a mechanical transformation to obtain large forces and small steps. A model has been made to calculate the step size and the driving voltage as a function of the load force and the motor geometry. The motor consists of three polysilicon layers and has been fabricated using surface micromachining. Tests show an effective step size of about 85 nm and a produced force of 43 μN at 40 V driving voltage.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1998 Elsevier B.V.
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Transducers Science and Technology (TST)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/14576
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0924-4247(98)00129-0
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