The development of micromechanical devices(MEMS and NEMS)on the basis of nanostructured shape memory alloys is reported.A Ti_(50)Ni_(25)Cu_(25)(at.%)alloy fabricated by the melt spinning technique in the form of a rib...The development of micromechanical devices(MEMS and NEMS)on the basis of nanostructured shape memory alloys is reported.A Ti_(50)Ni_(25)Cu_(25)(at.%)alloy fabricated by the melt spinning technique in the form of a ribbon with a thickness around 40µm and a width about 1.5 mm was chosen as a starting material.Technological parameters were optimized to produce the alloy in an amorphous state.The thickness of the ribbon was reduced to 5–14µm by means of electrochemical polishing.A nanostructural state of the thin ribbons was obtained via the dynamic crystallization of the amorphous alloy by application of a single electric pulse with duration in the range of 300–900µs.A microtweezers prototype with a composite cantilever of 0.8µm thick and 8µm long was developed and produced on the basis of the obtained nanostructured thin ribbons by means of the focused ion beam technique.Controlled deformation of the micromanipulator was achieved by heating using semiconductor laser radiation in a vacuum chamber of scanning ion-probe microscope.展开更多
基金This work has been carried out in the frames of Federal Target Program of Russian Federation,GK No.P726 and No.14.740.11.0687.
文摘The development of micromechanical devices(MEMS and NEMS)on the basis of nanostructured shape memory alloys is reported.A Ti_(50)Ni_(25)Cu_(25)(at.%)alloy fabricated by the melt spinning technique in the form of a ribbon with a thickness around 40µm and a width about 1.5 mm was chosen as a starting material.Technological parameters were optimized to produce the alloy in an amorphous state.The thickness of the ribbon was reduced to 5–14µm by means of electrochemical polishing.A nanostructural state of the thin ribbons was obtained via the dynamic crystallization of the amorphous alloy by application of a single electric pulse with duration in the range of 300–900µs.A microtweezers prototype with a composite cantilever of 0.8µm thick and 8µm long was developed and produced on the basis of the obtained nanostructured thin ribbons by means of the focused ion beam technique.Controlled deformation of the micromanipulator was achieved by heating using semiconductor laser radiation in a vacuum chamber of scanning ion-probe microscope.