For MEMS problems I use the same stress tensor as for silicon. The FEA inputs I use to input to Ansys are listed below: /COM, Anisontropic silicon material properties caa = 165 e9 ! c11 cab = 64 e9 ! c12 cdd = 79.2 e9 ! c44 /COM, Polysilicon material properties mat,poly et,poly,64 ! Degree of freedom: UX,UY,UZ keyopt,poly,4,0 type,poly tb,anel,poly tbdata,1,caa,cab,cab,0,0,0 tbdata,,caa,cab,0,0,0,caa tbdata,,0,0,0,cdd,0,0 tbdata,,cdd,0,cdd mp,alpx,poly,2.3e-6 mp,dens,poly,2.33e3 Good luck Trevor Niblock; MEMS group, Rm. 2043, Building 53, ECS, Southampton University, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. e-mail: t.niblock@soton.ac.uk URL: http://www.mems.ecs.soton.ac.uk/users/trevor/tn_hp.htm Note: URL may not work in a microsoft browser. The e-mail and any attachments hereto are strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender by return and delete the message. You must not disclose, forward or copy this e-mail or attachments to any third party without the prior consent of the sender. -----Original Message----- From: Chua Bee Lee [SMTP:eng50250@leonis.nus.edu.sg] Sent: 24 January 1999 10:59 To: MEMS@ISI.EDU Subject: Non-elastic deformation of polysilicon Hi ! Can anyone give me some pointers on the non-elastic deformation of polysilicon ? Does humidity comes into the picture ? Thanks! CHUA Bee Lee National University of Singapore Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering