Design of Shape Memory Micro-Actuator Modules with Sequential Actuation

Vlad Marius Bolocan; Dragoș Dumitru Vâlsan; Andrei Novac; Gheorghe Amadeus Chilnicean; Aurel Ercuța; Corneliu Marius Crăciunescu

doi:10.4028/p-14r0v3

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Design of Shape Memory Micro-Actuator Modules with Sequential Actuation

Abstract:

Shape memory alloy film-based micro-actuators have their behaviour controlled by a change in the thermomechanical stress that occurs in the bimorph - shape memory alloy film plus substrate assembly. The modification of the composition of the shape memory alloy leads to a change of the transformation temperature and implicitly of the temperature at which the stress change takes place in the bimorph. The design of micro-actuator blocks in which the composition and/or the temperature control mode of each micro-actuator in the block allows to obtain successive or sequential transformation sequences. The paper analyses the case of cantilever actuator modules with films of different compositions, deposited on the same substrate. It is highlighted how the composition of the alloy film with shape memory influences the modification of the curvature of bimorph cantilever type actuators in the studied block.