Coupling effects in a multi stage of bistable micropumps for high positive or low negative pressures

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Christoph Kutter
• Subject Area: Microsystems
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424644019

Combining bistable working piezo driven micropumps to a multistage assembly enable new functions and pressure areas. In this project, the basic interaction of the single actuators with each other as well as the design rules, both for the bistable actuators and the interaction, are investigated.The main objectives are to study how- the single actuator units work in a cascade- the dead volume influences the performance of the cascade- the valve properties influence the cascade- understand the interaction of the actuator units in the multistage assembly

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 2206: Cooperative Multilevel Multistable Micro Actuator Systems (KOMMMA)