BLDC motor as a MEMS

 Project in collaboration with ETA SA

Project description

In this project, a small 3-phases axial flux BLDC motor in form of a MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) is designed with the corresponding electronic circuit. The stator is realized following the rules used for MEMS manufacture and the coils have two copper layers. The rotor is made of a standard ring-shaped permanent magnet assembled over the stator chip. The prototype has an efficiency of 31% for an input power of 400 nW.

Publications

Développement et caractérisation de microbobines pour un système électromécanique en technologie MEMS

P. Meyer 

2008.

Analyse et mise en oeuvre d’un moteur électromagnétique microfabriqué

S. Merzaghi / Y. Perriard; C. Köchli (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

Optimisation d’un actionneur biomédical

S. Merzaghi 

2006.

Development of Planar Microcoils for an Electromagnetic Linear Actuator Fabricated in Batch-Type Wafer Technology

S. Merzaghi; P. Meyer; Y. Perriard 

2008. IAS Annual Meeting 2008, Edmonton, Canada, October 5-9, 2008.

Development of a Hybrid MEMS BLDC Micromotor

S. Merzaghi; C. Koechli; Y. Perriard 

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 2011. Vol. 47, num. 1, p. 3-11. DOI : 10.1109/TIA.2010.2090841.

Modeling and design of a hybrid MEMS motor

C. Koechli; S. Merzaghi; Y. Perriard 

2010. 19th International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Rome, Italy, September 6-8, 2010. DOI : 10.1109/ICELMACH.2010.5608068.

Development of a Hybrid MEMS BLDC Micromotor

S. Merzaghi; C. Koechli; Y. Perriard 

2009. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), San Jose, USA, September 20-24, 2009. p. 3595-3601. DOI : 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316400.