Development of electrostatic microactuators: 5-year progress in modeling, design, and applications

I Morkvenaite-Vilkonciene, V Bucinskas… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The implementation of electrostatic microactuators is one of the most popular technical
solutions in the field of micropositioning due to their versatility and variety of possible …

Charge-based capacitive self-sensing with continuous state observation for resonant electrostatic MEMS mirrors

R Schroedter, HW Yoo, D Brunner… - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This contribution presents charge-based capacitive self-sensing with a continuous full state
observer for a parametrically driven resonant electrostatic 1D MEMS mirror considering …

Dual-axis capacitive sensing for a 2D electrostatic comb-drive micromirror with polymer-filled isolation trenches

Y Cao, Y Jia, R Zhang, Y Deng, H Wang, C Shan… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a dual-axis capacitive sensing design to synchronously obtain the
amplitude and phase information of the two-axis scanning angles of a two-dimensional (2D) …

An integrated capacitive sensing method for electrostatic comb-drive micromirrors

R Zhang, J Qu, Y Cao, X Zhang, Y Jia, X Wang… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, a real-time capacitive sensing scheme based on electromechanical amplitude
modulation is developed to detect the scanning angle and phase of a uniaxial electrostatic …

Analytical Solution of Nonlinear Dynamics in Electrostatically Driven MEMS Scanning Mirrors

C Xia, D Qiao, A Peng, Z Chen, X Song… - Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an analytical solution for the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically
driven MEMS scanning mirrors. These mirrors are widely used due to their small size, low …

An electrothermal micromirror array integrated with thermal convection-based mirror position sensors

A Ren, Y Ding, H Yang, T Pan… - 2024 IEEE 37th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel electrothermal micromirror array integrated with thermal convection-based mirror
position sensors is proposed, in which a heater is integrated on the mirror plate to generate …

Fast and accurate fringe projection based on a MEMS micro-vibration mirror

M Han, X Wang, X Li - Optical Metrology and Inspection for …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In the traditional fringe projection technique, the speed of projecting 8-bit sinusoidal fringe
patterns is slow. To address this issue, this paper designs a novel high-speed MEMS …

Integrated Piezoresistive Sensor for High-Precision Closed-Loop Control of Piezoelectric Mems Fast Steering Mirror

Z Weng, W Xue, X Zhu, M Wang, Y Su, Y Yang… - Ke and Yang, Wang … - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces a wafer-integrated piezoresistive (PZR) sensor designed for quasi-
static micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) fast steering mirrors (FSM), with the …