In this work, the influence of the percentage and pattern of infill in PLA printed samples on the elastic modulus and characteristic stresses was analyzed. This study shows exciting promise for the use of micromachined PS-based filters for LWIR operation.Ĭommonly used 3D printed samples are partially infilled to reduce time and cost of printing, with mechanical properties dependent on the infill.
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The micromachining techniques developed to form a resonance cavity within PS-FP filters can also be tuned to reduce the stress mismatch and the absorption loss in the LWIR range. The stress measurements of attached films show that the lattice mismatch at the PS/silicon interface is likely the key factor controlling the stress in multilayer PS thin films. The transmittance measurements show that introducing notches at the four corners of the top mirror minimizes the bowing of the top mirror significantly. Methods developed to model and characterize PS-FP filters are discussed, with characterization a challenge for such porous structures considering their low refractive index and low Young’s modulus. This work discusses the optical and the mechanical characterizations of what are the first MEMS-based suspended PS-FP filters operating in the LWIR range. Porous silicon (PS) offers many advantages for such filters, including improved optical and mechanical properties compared to other LWIR filter materials, and the ability to modulate porosity to form multilayer structures that are compatible with conventional semiconductor technologies. Porous silicon Fabry-Pérot (PS-FP) filters operating in the long wavelength infrared (LWIR) range are demonstrated and studied. Upon increasing the glancing angle, the film anisotropy was increased owing to different factors, among which the non-standard columnar growth and the inclined crystallites toward the vapor flux direction. The same effect was noticed for the film hardness and reduced modulus. The results revealed that the elasticity constants of the titanium thin film were mostly affected by the glancing angle and they decreased when the glancing angle increased.
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Nanoindentation measurements were performed in order to evaluate the effect of the glancing angle on the hardness and the reduced modulus. The influence of the film porosity on the elasticity constants was investigated.
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The difference between conventional and GLAD sputtering was evaluated in terms of microstructure, texture evolution and elastic properties. The elastic response was examined for three different glancing angles and the presence of in-plane anisotropy of the film was noticed from the measured elasticity constants. The anisotropic behavior was evaluated for titanium thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering at Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) on glass substrates and silicon wafers. The IET was used in flexural and torsional vibration modes in order to determine the Young's and shear moduli of coatings. The model is based on the lamination theory and was validated with a finite element analysis. In this work, the elasticity constants of anisotropic thin films were determined using a model developed specifically in order to use the Impulse Excitation Technique (IET).