High-performance silicon scanning mirror for laser printing

Wyatt O. Davis; Dean Brown; Mark Helsel; Randy Sprague; Greg Gibson; Arda Yalcinkaya; Hakan Urey

doi:10.1117/12.700849

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22 January 2007 High-performance silicon scanning mirror for laser printing

Wyatt O. Davis, Dean Brown, Mark Helsel, Randy Sprague, Greg Gibson, Arda Yalcinkaya, Hakan Urey

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Proceedings Volume 6466, MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems VI; 64660D (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.700849
Event: MOEMS-MEMS 2007 Micro and Nanofabrication, 2007, San Jose, California, United States

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This paper describes the design, fabrication, and characterization of the first MEMS scanning mirror with performance matching the polygon mirrors currently used for high-speed consumer laser printing. It has reflector dimensions of 8mm X 0.75mm, and achieves 80^o total optical scan angle at an oscillation frequency of 5kHz. This performance enables the placement of approximately 14,000 individually resolvable dots per line at a rate of 10,000 lines per second, a record-setting speed and resolution combination for a MEMS scanner. The scanning mirror is formed in a simple microfabrication process by gold reflector deposition and patterning, and through-wafer deep reactive-ion etching. The scanner is actuated by off-the-shelf piezo-ceramic stacks mounted to the silicon structure in a steel package. Device characteristics predicted by a mathematical model are compared to measurements.

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Wyatt O. Davis, Dean Brown, Mark Helsel, Randy Sprague, Greg Gibson, Arda Yalcinkaya, and Hakan Urey "High-performance silicon scanning mirror for laser printing", Proc. SPIE 6466, MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems VI, 64660D (22 January 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.700849

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