Publications

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Design and Fabrication of 2D Fast Electrothermal Micromirrors with Large Scan Range and Small Center Shift", Transducers'11, The 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Beijing, 06/2011.

Pal, S., K. Jia, and H. Xie, "An Electrothermal Micromirror with High Linear Scanning Efficiency", LEOS 2007, Lake Buena Vista, FL, October, 2007.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Fabrication of robust electrothermal MEMS devices using aluminum–tungsten bimorphs and polyimide thermal isolation", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 22, issue 11, pp. 115036, 11/2012.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Dynamic Compact Thermal Model of an Electrothermal Micromirror Based on Transmission Line Theory", Microtech Conference and Expo (Nanotech 2010 vol. 2), Anaheim, CA, NSTI, 2010.

Pal, S., K. Jia, S. Maley, and H. Xie, "Reduced order thermal modeling of a one-dimensional electrothermally actuated micromirror device", MEMS/MOEMS Components and Their Applications V. Special Focus Topics: Transducers at the Micro-Nano Interface, vol. 6885, San Jose, CA, USA, SPIE, pp. 68850B - 68850B-11, 01/2008.

Pal, S., and A. Ghosh, "Optimal actuation of micro-cantilevers by laser radiation pressure", IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 580-581, MAY, 2006.

Pal, S., S.R. Samuelson, X. Zhang, and H. Xie, "Large in-plane displacement microactuators based on electro-thermal bimorphs with folded multiple segments", Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS EUROSENSORS XXVII), 2013 Transducers Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on, pp. 1587-1590, June, 2013.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Analysis and Simulation of Curved Bimorph Microactuators", Microtech Conference and Expo (Nanotech 2010 vol. 2), Anaheim, CA, NSTI, 2010.

Pal, S., S. Samuelson, and H. Xie, "Novel mechanisms for millimeter range piston actuation of vertical micromirrors and microlenses", International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2012.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Pre-Shaped Open Loop Drive of Electrothermal Micromirror by Continuous and Pulse Width Modulated Waveforms", Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1254 -1260, 09/2010.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Analysis, simulation and fabrication of curved multimorphs that undergo bending and twisting", Sensors, 2011 IEEE, pp. 667-670, Oct, 2011.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Maximization of constant velocity scan range of electrothermally-actuated micromirror by pulse width modulated drive", Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, 2009 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on, Clearwater Beach, FL, pp. 55 -56, 08/2010, 2009.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Analysis and Fabrication of Curved Multimorph Transducers that Undergo Bending and Twisting", IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (accepted, In Press), 2012.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Distributed and lumped element models for a bimorph-actuated micromirror", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 045020, 2010.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "Repeatability study of an electrothermally actuated micromirror", Reliability Physics Symposium, 2009 IEEE International, Montreal, QC, pp. 549 -556, 2009.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "A Curved Multimorph Based Electrothermal Micromirror with Large Scan Range and Low Drive Voltage", Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, vol. 170, pp. pp. 156-163, 2011.

Pal, S., and H. Xie, "A parametric dynamic compact thermal model of an electrothermally actuated micromirror", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 065007, 2009.