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Sensors 2011, 11(5), 4972-4989; doi:10.3390/s110504972
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Two-Scale Simulation of Drop-Induced Failure of Polysilicon MEMS Sensors
Stefano Mariani 1,*
, Aldo Ghisi 1 , Alberto Corigliano 1 , Roberto Martini 1,† and Barbara Simoni 2
, Aldo Ghisi 1 , Alberto Corigliano 1 , Roberto Martini 1,† and Barbara Simoni 2
1
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
2
MH Division, STMicroelectronics, Via Tolomeo 1, 20010 Cornaredo, Italy
†
Current address: IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 15 March 2011; in revised form: 28 April 2011 / Accepted: 3 May 2011 / Published: 4 May 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Testing and Reliability Issues in MEMS Engineering 2011)
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Abstract: In this paper, an industrially-oriented two-scale approach is provided to model the drop-induced brittle failure of polysilicon MEMS sensors. The two length-scales here investigated are the package (macroscopic) and the sensor (mesoscopic) ones. Issues related to the polysilicon morphology at the micro-scale are disregarded; an upscaled homogenized constitutive law, able to describe the brittle cracking of silicon, is instead adopted at the meso-scale. The two-scale approach is validated against full three-scale Monte-Carlo simulations, which allow for stochastic effects linked to the microstructural properties of polysilicon. Focusing on inertial MEMS sensors exposed to drops, it is shown that the offered approach matches well the experimentally observed failure mechanisms.
Keywords: polysilicon MEMS; drops and shocks; brittle cracking; multi-scale simulations; finite element analysis
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Mariani, S.; Ghisi, A.; Corigliano, A.; Martini, R.; Simoni, B. Two-Scale Simulation of Drop-Induced Failure of Polysilicon MEMS Sensors. Sensors 2011, 11, 4972-4989.
AMA StyleMariani S, Ghisi A, Corigliano A, Martini R, Simoni B. Two-Scale Simulation of Drop-Induced Failure of Polysilicon MEMS Sensors. Sensors. 2011; 11(5):4972-4989.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMariani, Stefano; Ghisi, Aldo; Corigliano, Alberto; Martini, Roberto; Simoni, Barbara. 2011. "Two-Scale Simulation of Drop-Induced Failure of Polysilicon MEMS Sensors." Sensors 11, no. 5: 4972-4989.