Adhesion energy and shape of nanogap InP/InGaAs microcantilevers

Jan D. Makowski, Anand S. Gawarikar, Joseph J. Talghader

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Abstract

The adhesion energy is measured between InGaAs quantum wells that have collapsed across a 120 nm airgap in a InP/InGaAs heterostructure. The method relies on measuring the unadhered length and shape of collapsed microcantilevers with optical interferometry. The adhesion energy is found to be 72 ± 16 mJm-2. Since the airgap is much smaller than has been measured previously, the influence of van-der-Waals forces across the gap was included in theoretical modeling. It was found that the forces should not cause significant deviation from the standard adhesion models unless the adhesion energy drops below 25 mJm-2.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCOMMAD'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices
Pages212-215
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, COMMAD 2006 - Perth, Australia
Duration: Dec 6 2006Dec 8 2006

Publication series

NameConference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Proceedings, COMMAD

Other

Other2006 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, COMMAD 2006
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityPerth
Period12/6/0612/8/06

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