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A high-performance silicon-on-insulator MEMS gyroscope operating at atmospheric pressure
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2007-03-30
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Alper, Said Emre
Azgın, Kıvanç
Akın, Tayfun
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This paper presents a new, high-performance silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MEMS gyroscope with decoupled oscillation modes. The gyroscope structure allows it to achieve matched-resonance-frequencies, large drive-mode oscillation amplitude, high sense-mode quality factor, and low mechanical cross-talk. The gyroscope is fabricated through the commercially available SOIMUMPS process of MEMSCAP Inc. The fabricated gyroscope has minimum capacitive sense gaps of 2.6 mu m and a structural silicon thickness of 25 mu m, and it fits into a chip area smaller than 3 mm x 3 mm. The fabricated gyroscope is hybrid connected to a CMOS capacitive interface ASIC chip, which is fabricated in a standard 0.6 mu m CMOS process. The characterization of the hybrid-connected gyroscope demonstrates a low measured noise-equivalent rate of 90 degrees/h/Hz(1/2) at atmospheric pressure, eliminating the need for a vacuum package for a number of applications. R-2-non-linearity of the gyroscope is measured to be better than 0.02%. The gyroscope has a low quadrature signal of 70 degrees/s and a short-term bias stability of 1.5 degrees/s. The angular rate sensitivity of the gyroscope is 100 mu V/(degrees/s) at atmospheric pressure, which improves 24 times to 2.4 mV/(degrees/s) at vacuum. The noise-equivalent rate of the gyroscope at 20 mTorr vacuum is measured to be 35 degrees/h/Hz(1/2), which can be improved further by reducing the electromechanical noise.
Subject Keywords
Instrumentation
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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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Surfaces, Coatings and Films
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Condensed Matter Physics
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Metals and Alloys
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Gyroscope
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Angular rate sensor
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SOI gyroscope
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Mechanical decoupling
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35755
Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2006.06.043
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Article