L7

L5: Simulation, Modelling and Computer Aided Design Laboratory

Head of the Laboratory: Dr. Raluca Muller

Interest in specific objectives and FP7 Calls:

Objective ICT-2009.3.9: Microsystems and Smart Miniaturised Systems
Objective FoF.ICT.2010.10-1: Smart Factories: ICT for agile and environmentally friendly manufacturing: a, b, c, d, e
Objective GC.ICT.2010.10-3 ICT for the fully electrical vehicle ("ICT for Green Cars")
FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4;
FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4;

Main areas of expertise:

design, development and optimization of MEMS/MOEMS components and devices (switches, cantilevers, bridges, membranes, microgrippers); mechanical, thermal, electrical and electrostatic, piezoelectric, fluidic, as well as coupled field (static and transient) analysis; modeling and simulation for multi-physics problems; design, modelling and simulations of microfluidic components and systems for biomedical applications and micro-electronic fluidic - the microfluidic analyzes include: fluid dynamics in microstructures ; electrokinetic with field switching analysis; fluid diffusion; bubble and droplet simulation (transport, merging, splitting); interaction between fluids and mechanical parts; mechanical, electrostatic, piezoelectric analysis for microfluidic actuators-; modelling of optoelectronic devices, neural networks.
elastomer based microstructures (technology, applications); optical processing and storage of information; micro-systems applications in the field of energy; manufacturing and characterization of materilas for advanced nanoelectronic devices based on oxidic materials; techiques of chracterizations as cathodoluminescence and photoluminecence

Participation in International co-operations

FP6: MI-Lab on chip- “Lab-on-a-chip implementation of production processes for new molecular imaging agents- STREP (2005-2008), NMP-No 516984; coordinator University of Liege, Belgium
FP 6: IPMMAN: Improvement of industrial Production Integrating Macro, Micro And Nanotechnologies for more flexible and efficient manufacturing FP 6 Project (CA, NMP-CT-033205, 2006-2009): Coordinator Profactor, Research and Solutions GmbH, Austria ComEd: Leonardo da Vinci - Life Long Learning Development of competences of educational staff by integrating operational tasks into measures of vocational training and further education” – ComEd (2008-2010); Coordinator BWAW Thüringen gGmbH, Germany, Contract Number : DE/08/LLP-LdV/TO/147174- ( 2008-2010)

Specific facilities

Soft/hard Tools:

COVENTOR 2008.2 (Architect, FlowMM; MemHenry; MemPackage; Designer; Analyzer Std., Microfluidics; MemOptics, Semulator, EM3DS)
MATLAB 7: Optimization Toolbox; Extended Symbolic Math Toolbox; Partial Differential Equation Toolbox; Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search Toolbox; Statistics Toolbox; Neural Network Toolbox; Curve Fitting Toolbox; Spline Toolbox; Signal Processing Toolbox; Image Processing Toolbox; Simulink
ANSYS Multiphysics 11.0- Structural, thermal, acoustic, electromagnetic and coupled field analyses, CFD
COMSOL Multiphysics 3.3 and 3.4 (enabling parallel computation)
Solidworks Office Premium 2008 - 3D CAD design software
Mathematica 7 Mathematical software for technical and scientific data processing
Origin PRO 8: data analysis and graphing workspace, analysis tools for statistics, 3D fitting, image processing and signal processing
Visual Studio 2008 Pro Programming tool for RAD and IDE.
Dual IBM 3750 Server with 8 quad-core Intel Xeon MP 2.93 GHz processors, 196 GByte RAM and 1 TByte HDD + 876 GByte external storage
Computer network for training

Characterization equipments

Avantes Fiber Optic Spectrometer - AvaSpec NIR256-2.2 - The AvaSpec equipment is used in optical specra aquisition and characerization of thin fims luminescence emission.
Fluoreecence spectrometer in UV-vis-NIR, also for reflection, transmission and absorption
Reflective conoscope
Semiconductor Characterization System (4200S/C/Keithely) with Manual Probe Station (EP6/SüssMicroTec).

Processing equipments:

Dip Pen Nanolithography system-allows pattering in nanometric range and is a direct writing method that can use molecular and biomolecular “inks” on a variety of substrates.

2 Laboratories: National projects Capacities

LABORATORY FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MICROSYSTEMS -LAMSYS (2007-2009)
Project Type: PN II- Capacities; Contract no.7/2007
Project manager: Mat. Oana Tatiana Nedelcu- ([email protected])
INTEGRATED LABORATORY OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICRO AND NANOSYSTEMS - MICRONANOLAB (2007-2009)
Project Type: PN II -- Capacities Contract no.13 / 2007 - Project manager: Dr. Gabriel Moagăr-Poladian ([email protected])

Service offer

We provide access and consultancy to soft and hardware facilities for solving different research problems for industry and academia;
We organized and provide access to the training network for seminars, courses, labs for students;

Simulation, consulting and training services in micro and nano domains;
Application areas: microsensors, microfluidics, MEMS/NEMS, MOEMS, RF MEMS


ANSYS	COVENTOR	COVENTOR	COMSOL

Computer Aided Design using dedicated software tools: COVENTOR 2008 and ANSYS
- Mask Design, Process Editor, 3D building and mesh
- Modeling for technological processes/ optimizations
- Special features: particularized use (macro or subroutine) creation; special geometrical modeling (AFM images reconstruction in CAD format, surfaces generated in accordance with mathematical expression, etc)
Computer Aided Engineering and Analysis (using FEM, FVM, BEM tools)
- Microfluidics analysis (thermo)dynamics, electrokinetics, diffusion, fluid mixing and separation in microcomponents
- Electro-thermo-mechanical and piezoelectric analysis (steady state and transient).
- Coupled field simulations: thermo-mechanical simulations; electro-mechanical simulations; multiphysics, fluid-solid interaction
Consultancy regarding design and simulation optimization
Training in COVENTOR COMSOL and ANSYS using training dedicated infrastructure