SELF-LIMITING ELECTRICAL TRIGGERING FOR INITIATING FRACTURE OF FRANGIBLE GLASS
A transient electronic device includes electronic elements (120) (e.g., an SOI- or chip-based IC) and a trigger mechanism (130) disposed on a frangible glass substrate (110). The trigger mechanism (130) includes a switch (150) that initiates a large trigger current through a self-limiting resistive...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English French German |
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24.06.2020
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Summary: | A transient electronic device includes electronic elements (120) (e.g., an SOI- or chip-based IC) and a trigger mechanism (130) disposed on a frangible glass substrate (110). The trigger mechanism (130) includes a switch (150) that initiates a large trigger current through a self-limiting resistive element (140) in response to a received trigger signal (TS). The self-limiting resistive element (140) includes a resistor portion (142) that generates heat in response to the trigger current, thereby rapidly increasing the temperature of a localized (small) region of the frangible glass substrate, and a current limiting portion (145) (e.g., a fuse) that self-limits or terminates the trigger current after a predetermined amount of time, causing the localized region to rapidly cool down. The frangible glass substrate (110) is engineered such that a stress profile produced by the rapid heating/cooling of the localized region generates an initial fracture force that subsequently propagates throughout the glass substrate, whereby sufficient potential energy is released to powderize the electronic elements (120). |
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Bibliography: | Application Number: EP20170182802 |