Anti-stiction coating for mechanically tunable photonic crystal devices
article
A method to avoid the stiction failure in nano-electro-opto-mechanical systems has been demonstrated by coating the system with an anti-stiction layer of Al2O3 grown by atomic layer deposition techniques. The device based on a double-membrane photonic crystal cavity can be reversibly operated from the pull-in back to its release status. This enables to electrically switch the wavelength of a mode over ~50 nm with a potential modulation frequency above 2 MHz. These results pave the way to reliable nano-mechanical sensors and optical switches.
TNO Identifier
784623
Source
Optics Express, 26(4), pp. 3882-3891.
Collation
10 p.
Pages
3882-3891