A planarized substrate structure for an electromechanical device comprising a substrate layer; a dielectric layer formed on the substrate layer, the dielectric layer formed with conductor spaces therein, the dielectric layer further including a dielectric top surface; and a conducting layer formed as a set of conductors in the conductor spaces of the dielectric layer, the conducting layer having a conducting layer top surface, and where the dielectric top surface and the conducting layer top surface are formed in a substantially co-planar fashion to provide a planarized substrate structure.