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.

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Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Condensed Matter Physics, Metals and Alloys, Gyroscope, Angular rate sensor, SOI gyroscope, Mechanical decoupling

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35755

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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2006.06.043

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Article

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S. E. Alper, K. Azgın, and T. Akın, “A high-performance silicon-on-insulator MEMS gyroscope operating at atmospheric pressure,” SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, pp. 34–42, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35755.