Proportional Microvalve Using A Unimorph Piezoelectric Microactuator
MICROMACHINES(2020)
摘要
Microvalves are important flow-control devices in many standalone and integrated microfluidic applications. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based pneumatic microvalves are commonly used but they generally require large peripheral connections that decrease portability. There are many alternatives found in the literature that use Si-based microvalves, but variants that can throttle even moderate pressures (1 bar) tend to be bulky (cm-range) or consume high power. This paper details the development of a low-power, normally-open piezoelectric microvalve to control flows with a maximum driving pressure of 1 bar, but also retain a small effective form-factor of 5 mm x 5 mm x 1.8 mm. A novel combination of rapid prototyping methods like stereolithography and laser-cutting have been used to realize this device. The maximum displacement of the fabricated piezoelectric microactuator was measured to be 8.5 mu m at 150 V. The fabricated microvalve has a flow range of 0-90 mu L min(-1) at 1 bar inlet pressure. When fully closed, a leakage of 0.8% open-flow was observed with a power-consumption of 37.5 mu W. A flow resolution of 0.2 mu L min(-1)-De-ionized (DI) water was measured at 0.5 bar pressure.
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microvalve,microactuator,piezoelectric,unimorph,stereolithography,3D-printing
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