Advanced Application of an Automated Generative Tool for MEMS Based on COMSOL Multiphysics

F. Bolognini
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Published in 2011

This work presents a different use of COMSOL as an integrated component of a computational tool framework used to automate designs creation. CNS-Burst is a computational synthesis method that has been implemented with the aim of automatically generating solutions to an assigned design task.

COMSOL is integrated in the method and used to evaluate the performance of the design solutions found. For this purpose, the geometrical objects generated are transformed in COMSOL objects for analysis and simulation. The application used to validate the method are MEMS and, in particular, sandwich microresonators. This paper can be of interest to see how COMSOL has been used in this innovative academic project, but also to explore how MEMS design innovation is investigated.