DocumentCode
732039
Title
A latchable thermally activated phase change actuator and optimization of its response behaviour
Author
Richter, C. ; Wilhelm, E. ; Voigt, A. ; Rapp, B.E.
Author_Institution
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
fYear
2015
fDate
21-25 June 2015
Firstpage
2160
Lastpage
2163
Abstract
In this paper we present a latchable, thermally activated phase change (PC) actuator. The actuator can be controlled using a heating resistor and two pressure sources. Thus several hundred actuators can be driven using a highly integrated platform which allows the individual control of several hundred heating resistors. To optimize the response time of the actuators we analyzed the influence of the heating power of the used resistors, the volume of the used phase change material (PCM) and the PCM itself.
Keywords
actuators; phase change materials; PC actuator; PCM; heating resistor; latchable thermally activated phase change actuator; pressure sources; response behaviour optimization; Actuators; Heating; Logic gates; Microfluidics; Phase change materials; Resistors; Time factors; Latchable Actuator; Microfluidic; Phase Change;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), 2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Anchorage, AK
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7181387
Filename
7181387
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