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Record W4380680211 · doi:10.32920/23523378.v1

Development of FPCB (Flexible Printed Circuit Board) Mirror Technology

2023· preprint· en· W4380680211 on OpenAlexaff
Hui Zuo

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAdaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWaferMicroelectromechanical systemsDeep reactive-ion etchingOpticsEtching (microfabrication)Materials sciencePhotolithographyAperture (computer memory)OptoelectronicsReactive-ion etchingNanotechnologyEngineeringLayer (electronics)PhysicsMechanical engineering

Abstract

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<p>A low cost and large aperture scanning mirror with high surface quality is always highly desired. This is especially true for scanning LiDARs for autonomous vehicles. Polygon, galvanometer or MEMS mirrors can have a large aperture, but they are bulky, high power consumption and costly.</p> <p>This dissertation proposes a novel mirror technology for laser scanning, i.e., FPCB (flexible printed circuit board) masked one-step etching large aperture mirror, which simply etches a silicon wafer with a FPCB structure as the etching mask and the other side coated with a metal film as the etching stop layer and reflective surface. Meanwhile the FPCB structure embeds copper coils to generate Lorentz force to oscillate the mirror. The FPCB structure is fabricated using mature and commercially available FPCB process, which is 0.1 mm-resolution based photolithography, instead of 1 μm based photolithography micromachining used in traditional MEMS mirrors. In addition, only one-step DRIE etching is needed without requiring any critical alignment. Such that a low cost can be achieved, e.g., a few dollars per mirror. Moreover, the mirror plate is as thick as the silicon wafer (100~200 μm), which leads to a good flatness (ROC of 10~20 m). Prototypes are fabricated and tested. Achieved performances are: aperture of 12 x 12 mm and 24 x 24 mm, oscillation frequency from 160 Hz ~1 kHz, FOV (field of view) of 30o, 20o and 15o. A 2D and 3D scanning LiDARs based on this novel mirror technology are constructed.</p> <p>This dissertation also develops two electrostatic parallel plate based FPCB micromirrors with performance improved than the previously developed deigns in our group, e.g., FPCB ring-square electrode sandwiched micromirror and double-stage FPCB electrostatic micromirror. The improvements include: the rotation angle increased by 90%, the resonant frequency increased by 40-70%, and the performance variation reduced from 40% to 12%.</p> <p>A large aperture FPCB mirror and a 2D LiDAR based on it are developed with the following performances: aperture 25 x 50 mm, FOV of 60o, measurement distance 50 m, 500 points per frame.</p>

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.381
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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