WO1988007697A1 - Radiation deflector assembly - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to radiation deflectors and radiation deflector assemblies and in particular to radiation deflectors and assemblies of the kind described in co-pending patent application PCT GB 86/00630 filed 16 October 1986 in the name of the present applicants.
- Radiation deflector assemblies described in PCT GB 86/00630 comprise at least three radiation waveguides; a controllable radiation deflector positioned such that when the deflector is in a first position radiation passes between one combination of two of the waveguides, and when the deflector is in a second position radiation passes between another combination of two of the waveguides; and control means responsive to control signals for controlling the position of the deflector.
- the deflector comprises a cantilever beam mounted and hinged in a common substrate with the waveguides. This configuration of radiation deflector assembly hereinafter referred to as "of the kind described” eases the problem of accurately aligning the waveguides with the deflector.
- Radiation deflector assemblies of the kind described find application as radiation switches, for example, as optical switches in optical transmission systems.
- the deflector must also have a minimum displacement sufficient to deflect radiation by a distance at least equal to the separation between each of the waveguides in respective waveguide pairs. It is further desirable that where the control means requires a driving potential to control deflection of the deflector, this driving potential Is miniBised.
- a radiation deflector comprises a deflectable cantilever beam of which one end is free and one end is hinged to a supporting substrate wherein the cantilever beam has its centre of mass closer to the free end of the beam than to the hinged end.
- a radiation deflector assembly of the kind described comprising a deflectable cantilever beam of which one end is free and one end is hinged to a supporting substrate is characterised in that the cantilever beam has its centre of mass closer to the free end of the beam than to the hfnged end.
- the cantilever beam comprises a beam portion hinged to the substrate and a load portion at the free end of the beam portion.
- the load portion provides the major proportion of the total mass of the cantilever beam as a whole, the ceTitre of mass of the load portion being arranged to be positioned at or near the free end of the beam portion.
- a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the present invention facilitates the more rapid attainment of equilibrium on switching.
- the length of the beam portion and the mass of the load portion are selected such that the first natural resonant frequency of the cantilever beam is much greater than the maximum frequency at which the deflector is to be switched between positions.
- the control means comprises means for applying an electrostatic potential for displacing the cantilever beam deflector.
- the control means may Include an electrode arranged such that the displacement force provided by an applied electrostatic potential effectively acts at the centre of mass of the load portion.
- the electrostatic potential may be applied to a side surface, being a surface of the load portion substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the undisplaced beam portion.
- the area of the side surface is made relatively great in order to reduce the electrostatic potential required to provide the necessary displacement force.
- Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the present invention
- Figure 2 is a cutaway perspective view of a substrate with a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the present invention
- Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating one mode of operation of a radiation deflector according to the invention.
- FIG. 4 illustrates an alternative mode of operation
- Figure 5 is a graph illustrating the ranges of beam geometries appropriate for desirable performance criteria
- Figure 6 is a graph of cantilever stiffness versus arm spacing and thickness for a cantilever with a beam portion comprising two parallel arms; and Figure 7 Is a diagram Illustrating the stages In an exemplary method of fabrication of a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the invention 1n a silicon substrate.
- a cantilever beam radiation deflector 1 comprises a beam portion 2 which extends out from the body of supporting substrate 4 and carries a load portion, or end mass 3, at the end not attached to the substrate.
- the beam portion 2 is formed of two parallel arms 5, 6.
- An area 9 of the supporting substrate 4 adjacent to the end mass 3 is provided with an electrode 7 disposed parallel to and opposite a lateral surface 8 of the end mass 3.
- the surface 8 is shown also provided with an electrode.
- the cantilever may be deflected by applying an electrostatic potential between the electrodes.
- the parallel arms 5, 6 are adapted to flex at _ the joints to the body of the substrate 4 and at thejoints to the end mass 3. This arrangement permits the electrode surfaces to remain parallel even when the beam portion is deflected.
- FIG. 2 is a cutaway perspective view of an alternative cantilever beam radiation deflector 20.
- the cantilever beam deflector 20 again comprises a beam portion 22 formed of two parallel arms 25, 26, extending out from a supporting substrate 24, together with a massive load portion, or end mass 23.
- the load portion 23 in this instance is H-shaped and is arranged to have its centre of mass in the plane of the attachment of the load portion to the two parallel arms 25, 26.
- the sides 28, 30 of the load portion 23 are readily available for use with electrostatic electrodes.
- the proportionately large area of these sides reduces the magnitude of the electrostatic driving potential needed to displace the deflector.
- FIG 3 the deflector shown comprises an H-shaped load portion 33 attached to a supporting substrate 34 by two parallel arms 35, 36.
- Three waveguides 300, 301, 302 are provided in the substrate 34 and are arranged such that radiation passed along the waveguides 1s deflected off one side surface 38 of the load portion 33.
- the side surface 38 is provided with a coating exhibiting suitably high reflectivity at the operating wavelength of.
- the radiation deflector is undisplaced from its equilibrium position and radiation is directed between the two waveguides 300 and 301 as shown by the dotted line.
- the radiation deflector is displaced towards the waveguides by means of electrostatic attraction between electrodes on the opposing faces 38, 39 of the load portion 33 and the supporting substrate 34 respectively. In this position radiation is directed between waveguides 300 and 302, again as shown by the dotted line.
- FIG. 4 An alternative embodiment and mode of operation is illustrated in Figure 4.
- a waveguide 400 is mounted longitudinally along the beam portion of the deflector and parallel with the arms 45, 46. This waveguide 400 terminates at the end face 41 of the load portion 43.
- Three further waveguides 401, 402, 403 are mounted in the substrate 44 and terminate at the face 42 of the substrate opposing the end face 41 of the load portion 43. Electrostatic potential is applied between electrodes on opposing side faces 48, 49 of the load portion 43 and substrate 44 respectively to displace the deflector.
- the cantilever is displaced to couple radiation between the waveguide 400 on the cantilever deflector and the waveguide 402 on the main body of the substrate. If the cantilever were displaced in the opposite sense clearly radiation would be coupled between the cantilever waveguide 400 and the third other waveguide 403.
- the waveguide 400 mounted on the cantilever may be an optical fibre stripped of the usual cladding and comprising the central core alone.
- Such a waveguide would be flexible enough to move with the cantilever beam portion and dimensionally of the appropriate scale. Over the small distances involved the excess loss introduced by an unclad fibre such as this would be negligible.
- B is the depth of the beam
- G is the arm thickness
- S is the arm separation
- ⁇ Q is the permittivity of free space and d is the separation of the cantilever from the substrate electrode.
- the first resonant frequency f of this device is given by:
- m and M are the masses of the cantilever beam " portion and end mass respectively and u is the natural frequency of the cantilever.
- the maximum switching displacement will be determined by the electrode separation, d.
- the potential V required to displace the deflector must l ikewise increase.
- Thi s increase can be offset by making the area A over which the potential is applied as large as possible within the practical limitations, as shown in the embodiment -of Figure 2, for exampl e .
- the resonant frequency should be greater than 5KHz
- the solid curves show the variation in beam stiffness with beam length for end masses, M of 10-50 ⁇ g. These curves represent the limiting range of beam geometries (ie length and cross-section) which have a resonant frequency of 5KHz for the given end mass.
- twin arm beam structure enables beam stiffness appropriate to a specific situation to be easily selected from a wide range by varying the arm thickness.
- the twin arm structure of the beam portion thus provides design flexibility in addition to permitting the faces of the load portion to remain oriented in the same direction whether the beam portion 1s deflected or not, as described earlier. Furthermore, this structure is also convenient for fabrication.
- the exemplary method of device fabrication illustrated in Figure 7 involves four masking levels and two anisotropic etching stages, both through the whole silicon wafer thickness.
- the fabrication of the vertical beams -involves a combination of micromachining and silicon planar technology to define the deflector geometry and to align the beams accurately along ⁇ 112> directions.
- the structures are etched using electrochemically controlled ethylene diamine as an anisotropic etchant.
- the main steps are:
- a final metallisation stage employing a shadow mask in (100) silicon and sputtering of aluminium through this mask to define the contact regions and create the electrodes between the end mass and the bulk of the substrate. Sputtering from both sides of the silicon wafer and annealing provides a uniform metallisation across the wafer thickness.
Abstract
A micromechanical cantilever beam (1) for use in an optical switch or other radiation deflector assembly includes a beam portion (2) comprising two parallel arms (5, 6) hinged at one end to a sulpporting substrate (4) and at the other end to a load portion (3) which provides the major proportion of the total mass of the cantilever beam. The beam is deflected by the application of an electrostatic potential between electrodes on opposing surfaces (8, 9) of the load portion and the supporting substrate respectively. This structure has improved switching performance in operation.
Description
RADIATION DEFLECTOR ASSEMBLY
*$* The present invention relates to radiation deflectors and radiation deflector assemblies and in particular to radiation deflectors and assemblies of the kind described in co-pending patent application PCT GB 86/00630 filed 16 October 1986 in the name of the present applicants.
Radiation deflector assemblies described in PCT GB 86/00630 comprise at least three radiation waveguides; a controllable radiation deflector positioned such that when the deflector is in a first position radiation passes between one combination of two of the waveguides, and when the deflector is in a second position radiation passes between another combination of two of the waveguides; and control means responsive to control signals for controlling the position of the deflector. In the specific embodiment described in PCT GB 86/00630 the deflector comprises a cantilever beam mounted and hinged in a common substrate with the waveguides. This configuration of radiation deflector assembly hereinafter referred to as "of the kind described" eases the problem of accurately aligning the waveguides with the deflector.
Radiation deflector assemblies of the kind described find application as radiation switches, for example, as optical switches in optical transmission systems.
One problem with the contruetion of radiation deflector assemblies of the kind described is the need to make the radiation deflector attain equilibrium as rapidly as possible on switching, without excessive resonant oscillation. The deflector must also have a minimum displacement sufficient to deflect radiation by a distance at least equal to the separation between each of the waveguides in respective waveguide pairs.
It is further desirable that where the control means requires a driving potential to control deflection of the deflector, this driving potential Is miniBised.
It is an object of the present invention to provide improved radiation deflectors and deflector assemblies of the kind described which resolve or at least partially mitigate one or more of these aforementioned problems.
According to the present invention a radiation deflector comprises a deflectable cantilever beam of which one end is free and one end is hinged to a supporting substrate wherein the cantilever beam has its centre of mass closer to the free end of the beam than to the hinged end.
Also according to the present invention a radiation deflector assembly of the kind described comprising a deflectable cantilever beam of which one end is free and one end is hinged to a supporting substrate is characterised in that the cantilever beam has its centre of mass closer to the free end of the beam than to the hfnged end.
Conveniently, the cantilever beam comprises a beam portion hinged to the substrate and a load portion at the free end of the beam portion. Preferably the load portion provides the major proportion of the total mass of the cantilever beam as a whole, the ceTitre of mass of the load portion being arranged to be positioned at or near the free end of the beam portion.
It has been found that a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the present invention facilitates the more rapid attainment of equilibrium on switching.
Preferably the length of the beam portion and the mass of the load portion are selected such that the first natural resonant frequency of the cantilever beam is much greater than the maximum frequency at which the deflector is to be switched between positions.
Conveniently, 1n a radiation deflector assembly according to the Invention, the control means comprises means for applying an electrostatic potential for displacing the cantilever beam deflector. The control means may Include an electrode arranged such that the displacement force provided by an applied electrostatic potential effectively acts at the centre of mass of the load portion.
Conveniently, the electrostatic potential may be applied to a side surface, being a surface of the load portion substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the undisplaced beam portion. Preferably the area of the side surface is made relatively great in order to reduce the electrostatic potential required to provide the necessary displacement force.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail and by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the present invention;
Figure 2 is a cutaway perspective view of a substrate with a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the present invention;
Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating one mode of operation of a radiation deflector according to the invention;
Figure 4 illustrates an alternative mode of operation;
Figure 5 is a graph illustrating the ranges of beam geometries appropriate for desirable performance criteria;
Figure 6 is a graph of cantilever stiffness versus arm spacing and thickness for a cantilever with a beam portion comprising two parallel arms; and
Figure 7 Is a diagram Illustrating the stages In an exemplary method of fabrication of a cantilever beam radiation deflector according to the invention 1n a silicon substrate.
In Figure 1 a cantilever beam radiation deflector 1 comprises a beam portion 2 which extends out from the body of supporting substrate 4 and carries a load portion, or end mass 3, at the end not attached to the substrate. In this embodiment the beam portion 2 is formed of two parallel arms 5, 6. An area 9 of the supporting substrate 4 adjacent to the end mass 3 is provided with an electrode 7 disposed parallel to and opposite a lateral surface 8 of the end mass 3. The surface 8 is shown also provided with an electrode.
In operation, the cantilever may be deflected by applying an electrostatic potential between the electrodes. The parallel arms 5, 6 are adapted to flex at _ the joints to the body of the substrate 4 and at thejoints to the end mass 3. This arrangement permits the electrode surfaces to remain parallel even when the beam portion is deflected.
Figure 2 is a cutaway perspective view of an alternative cantilever beam radiation deflector 20. The cantilever beam deflector 20 again comprises a beam portion 22 formed of two parallel arms 25, 26, extending out from a supporting substrate 24, together with a massive load portion, or end mass 23. The load portion 23 in this instance is H-shaped and is arranged to have its centre of mass in the plane of the attachment of the load portion to the two parallel arms 25, 26.
In this configuration the sides 28, 30 of the load portion 23 are readily available for use with electrostatic electrodes. The proportionately large area of these sides reduces the magnitude of the electrostatic driving potential needed to displace the deflector.
One mode of operation of a radiation deflector assembly of the kind described is illustrated 1n plan schematic 1n Figure 3. As in Figure 2, the deflector shown comprises an H-shaped load portion 33 attached to a supporting substrate 34 by two parallel arms 35, 36. Three waveguides 300, 301, 302 are provided in the substrate 34 and are arranged such that radiation passed along the waveguides 1s deflected off one side surface 38 of the load portion 33. The side surface 38 is provided with a coating exhibiting suitably high reflectivity at the operating wavelength of.
In Figure 3(a) the radiation deflector is undisplaced from its equilibrium position and radiation is directed between the two waveguides 300 and 301 as shown by the dotted line. In Figure 3(b) the radiation deflector is displaced towards the waveguides by means of electrostatic attraction between electrodes on the opposing faces 38, 39 of the load portion 33 and the supporting substrate 34 respectively. In this position radiation is directed between waveguides 300 and 302, again as shown by the dotted line.
An alternative embodiment and mode of operation is illustrated in Figure 4. In this embodiment a waveguide 400 is mounted longitudinally along the beam portion of the deflector and parallel with the arms 45, 46. This waveguide 400 terminates at the end face 41 of the load portion 43. Three further waveguides 401, 402, 403 are mounted in the substrate 44 and terminate at the face 42 of the substrate opposing the end face 41 of the load portion 43. Electrostatic potential is applied between electrodes on opposing side faces 48, 49 of the load portion 43 and substrate 44 respectively to displace the deflector.
In the undisplaced equilibrium position of Figure 4(a) radiation 1s coupled between the waveguide 400 on the cantilever deflector and the central waveguide 401 on the supporting substrate. In Figure 4(b), the cantilever is displaced to couple radiation between the waveguide 400 on the cantilever deflector and the waveguide 402 on the main body of the substrate. If the cantilever were displaced in the opposite sense clearly radiation would be coupled between the cantilever waveguide 400 and the third other waveguide 403.
For optical radiation the waveguide 400 mounted on the cantilever may be an optical fibre stripped of the usual cladding and comprising the central core alone. Such a waveguide would be flexible enough to move with the cantilever beam portion and dimensionally of the appropriate scale. Over the small distances involved the excess loss introduced by an unclad fibre such as this would be negligible.
It will be apparent that radiation could be deflected into additional waveguides by suitably adjusting the degree and direction of displacement of the cantilever in both the example embodiments described here and in other embodiments within the scope of the invention.
In order to appreciate the advantages of the embodiments of the invention it is useful to analyse the mechanical characteristics of a cantilever beam, using the notation as shown in Figure 1.
Assuming that the only force acting on the cantilever is a concentrated force, P, at the free end, then the maximum displacement y may be expressed as:
(1)
where L 1s the length of the beam and El 1s the elastic stiffness of the beam. E 1s the elastic modulus and I 1s the second moment of area which may be expressed as:
I = BG(S*2G) (2)
where B is the depth of the beam, G is the arm thickness and S is the arm separation.
Where the force P is applied by an electrostatic potential V acting over an area A, the magnitude of the force is given by:
P _ Y2Aeft/d2 (3) o
where εQ is the permittivity of free space and d is the separation of the cantilever from the substrate electrode.
The first resonant frequency f of this device is given by:
f _ 2_u - _[3EI/L3(M+0.23m)]0*5 (4) 2τ
where m and M are the masses of the cantilever beam" portion and end mass respectively and u is the natural frequency of the cantilever.
For switching appl ications, it is important to damp the transient vibrations as soon as possible after switching. The critical damping , C for such a device is given by:
C = 2m_ ( 5 )
and the rate at which the amplitude diminishes 1s exponential and is given by:
y = yQ exp[-ut] (6)
From the theoretical treatment above it is possible to observe how the geometrical parameters of the cantilever beam influence the mechanical response, in terms of ampl itude of deflection and natural resonance, of the deflector.
For a given set of dimensional constraints, the maximum switching displacement will be determined by the electrode separation, d. As d increases then according to Equation (3) the potential V required to displace the deflector must l ikewise increase. Thi s increase can be offset by making the area A over which the potential is applied as large as possible within the practical limitations, as shown in the embodiment -of Figure 2, for exampl e .
" From Equations (4) and (5) it is apparent that the mass of the load portion has two significant effects. A larger mass inreases the rate at which the cantilever attains equil ibrium, but at the same time it decreases the first resonant frequency. The decrease in resonant frequency which goes with a larger mass can be compensated to some extent by increasing the moment of area I , or by decreasing the length, L of the beam portion. However, changes in these parameters both invol ve increasing the resonant frequency at the expense of the maximum displacement, y . Consequently, in the limit, it i s preferable to increase I or decrease L such that y =d for a given appl ied electrostatic potential .
For the purposes of demonstration, some characteristics of a cantil ever deflector as shown in
Figure 2 have been modelled for certain selected performance criteria. The selected criteria were that:
(I) the resonant frequency should be greater than 5KHz;
(II) the maximum electrostatic potential for deflection should be below 100Y; and
(III) the minimum electrode spacing should be 10μm. These figures were chosen as examples only and as such are representative rather than uniquely Ideal. Similarly, the ranges of geometric parameters used in the calculations were likewise chosen as representative and should not be taken to imply any specific limitations. The choice of criteria and geometric parameters in a particular practical case must be πiade according to the conditions relevant to that individual case. The examples here are for general guidance alone.
In Figure 5 the solid curves show the variation in beam stiffness with beam length for end masses, M of 10-50μg. These curves represent the limiting range of beam geometries (ie length and cross-section) which have a resonant frequency of 5KHz for the given end mass. The dashed curves represent beam geometries which are able to deflect to the full electrode spacing (d= 10, 15, 18μm) with a maximum applied potential of 100V. In between a pair of these curves (one solid, one dashed) exist windows inside which the three performance criteria are met.
In Figure 6 the stiffness of the cantilever, El, is plotted as a function of the arm spacing, S for various arm thicknesses, G.
It can be seen that the twin arm beam structure enables beam stiffness appropriate to a specific situation to be easily selected from a wide range by varying the arm thickness. The twin arm structure of the beam portion thus provides design flexibility in addition to permitting the faces of the load portion to remain oriented in the
same direction whether the beam portion 1s deflected or not, as described earlier. Furthermore, this structure is also convenient for fabrication.
One method of fabrication of a deflector according to the invention using a (110) silicon substrate is shown diagrammatically in Figure 7. Using the notation of the Miller indices, (110) silicon has two of the four £lll_- planes perpendicular to the surface, aligned along the <112> surface directions. These two 'vertical' 111^ planes of interest intersect each other at an angle of 70.53°. The remaining two fill? planes form an angle of 35.26° to the surface, but are not employed in this construction.
The exemplary method of device fabrication illustrated in Figure 7 involves four masking levels and two anisotropic etching stages, both through the whole silicon wafer thickness. The fabrication of the vertical beams -involves a combination of micromachining and silicon planar technology to define the deflector geometry and to align the beams accurately along <112> directions. The structures are etched using electrochemically controlled ethylene diamine as an anisotropic etchant. The main steps are:
(a) Thermal oxidation followed by photolithographic definition of the beam length and exposure of a window in the silicon equivalent to the spacing between the twin arms.
(b) Etching of a slot through the exposed silicon and subsequent photlithographic definition of the end mass and areas of the supporting substrate which will eventually form the adjacent electrode surfaces.
(c) Diffusion into the exposed fill? planes of the slot to define the arm thicknesses. This provides an accurate and reproducible method of controlling the thickness
of the cantilever arms. The concentration dependence of the next anisotropic etch 1s used as a fine tune of the arm thickness. Further diffusion is made into the areas lithographically defined in the previous step.
(d) Masking to define the free beam and etching the exposed silicon to provide the end mass and appropriate electrode spacing.
(e) A final metallisation stage employing a shadow mask in (100) silicon and sputtering of aluminium through this mask to define the contact regions and create the electrodes between the end mass and the bulk of the substrate. Sputtering from both sides of the silicon wafer and annealing provides a uniform metallisation across the wafer thickness.
Claims
1. A radiation deflector comprising a defl ectabl e cantilever beam of which one end is free and one end is hinged to a supporting substrate wherein the cantilever beam has its centre of mass closer to the free end of the beam than to the hinged end.
2. A radiation deflector according to claim 1 wherein the cantilever beam comprises a beam portion hinged to the substrate and a l oad portion at the free end of the beam portion and the l oad portion provides the major proportion of the total mass of the cantilever beam.
3. A radiation deflector assembly comprising at least three radiation waveguides; a controllable radiation deflector positioned such that when the deflector is in a first position radiation passes between one combination of two of the waveguides, and when the deflector is in a second position radiation passes between another combination of two of the waveguides; and control means responsive to control signal s for control l ing the position of the deflector wherein the deflector comprises a cantilever beam mounted and hinged in a common substrate with the waveguides and characterised in that the cantilever beam has its centre of mass closer to the free end of the beam than to the end hinged to the common substrate.
4. A radiation deflector assembly according to cl aim 3 wherein the cantil ever beam comprises a beam portion hinged to the substrate and a load portion at the free end of the beam portion and the load portion provides the major proportion of the total mass of the cantilever beam.
5. A radiation deflector assembly according to cl aim 4 wherein the length of the beam portion and the mass of the l oad portion are selected such that the fi rst natural resonant frequency of the cantilever beam is substantially greater than the maximum frequency at which the defl ector i s to be switched between positions.
6. A radiation deflector assembly according to cl aim 3 or claim 4 wherein the control means compri ses means for applying an electrostatic potential for displacing the cantilever beam defl ector.
7. A radiation deflector assembly according to claim 6 wherein the control means include an el ectrode arranged such that the displacement force provided by an appl ied electrostatic potential effectively acts at the centre of mass of the load portion.
8. A radiation deflector assembly according to cl aim 3 wherein at least one of the waveguides is provided on the cantilever beam.
9. A radiation deflector assembly according to cl aim 8 wherein the at l east one waveguide runs l ongitudinally al ong the cantilever beam.
10. A radiation deflector substantial ly as hereinbefore described and with reference to the Figures .
11. A radiation deflector assembly substantial ly as hereinbefore described and with reference to the Figure's.
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