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A Non-contact measurement technique to measure micro surface stress and obtain deformation profiles of the order of 1nm in Micro-cantilever based structures by single image Optical Diffraction method

Phani, Arindam (2010) A Non-contact measurement technique to measure micro surface stress and obtain deformation profiles of the order of 1nm in Micro-cantilever based structures by single image Optical Diffraction method. In: Conference on Photonics North 2010, JUN 01-03, 2010, Niagara Falls, CANADA.

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Abstract

A new method based on analysis of a single diffraction pattern is proposed to measure deflections in micro-cantilever (MC) based sensor probes, achieving typical deflection resolutions of 1nm and surface stress changes of 50 mu N/m. The proposed method employs a double MC structure where the deflection of one of the micro-cantilevers relative to the other due to surface stress changes results in a linear shift of intensity maxima of the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern of the transilluminated MC. Measurement of such shifts in the intensity maxima of a particular order along the length of the structure can be done to an accuracy of 0.01mm leading to the proposed sensitivity of deflection measurement in a typical microcantilever. This method can overcome the fundamental measurement sensitivity limit set by diffraction and pointing stability of laser beam in the widely used Optical Beam Deflection method (OBDM).

Item Type: Conference Paper
Series.: Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
Publisher: The International Society for Optical Engineering
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Keywords: Micro-cantilever based sensors; Surface Stress; Optical Diffraction
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2011 07:06
Last Modified: 31 Mar 2011 07:06
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/36360

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