Control of buckling in large micromembranes using engineered support structures

In this paper we describe a general method to avoid stress-induced buckling of thin and large freestanding membranes. We show that using properly designed supports, in the form of microbeams, we can reduce the out-of-plane deflection of the membrane while maintaining its stiffness. As a proof of pri...

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Main Authors: Iwase, Eiji, Hui, Pui-Chuen, Woolf, David, Rodriguez, Alejandro W, Johnson, Steven G., Capasso, Federico, Loncar, Marko, Rodriguez, Alejandro W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81261
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967