A smart microelectromechanical sensor and switch triggered by gas
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Bouchaala, Adam M.Jaber, Nizar

Shekhah, Osama

Chernikova, Valeriya

Eddaoudi, Mohamed

Younis, Mohammad I.

KAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterChemical Science Program
Functional Materials Design, Discovery and Development (FMD3)
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2016-07-05Online Publication Date
2016-07-05Print Publication Date
2016-07-04Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/615923
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There is an increasing interest to realize smarter sensors and actuators that can deliver a multitude of sophisticated functionalities while being compact in size and of low cost. We report here combining both sensing and actuation on the same device based on a single microstructure. Specifically, we demonstrate a smart resonant gas (mass) sensor, which in addition to being capable of quantifying the amount of absorbed gas, can be autonomously triggered as an electrical switch upon exceeding a preset threshold of absorbed gas. Toward this, an electrostatically actuated polymer microbeam is fabricated and is then functionalized with a metal-organic framework, namely, HKUST-1. The microbeam is demonstrated to absorb vapors up to a certain threshold, after which is shown to collapse through the dynamic pull-in instability. Upon pull-in, the microstructure can be made to act as an electrical switch to achieve desirable actions, such as alarming.Citation
A smart microelectromechanical sensor and switch triggered by gas 2016, 109 (1):013502 Applied Physics LettersPublisher
AIP PublishingJournal
Applied Physics Lettersae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1063/1.4955309