Precision readout circuits for capacitive microaccelerometers

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2004-01-01

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Yazdi, N
Külah, Haluk
Najafi, K

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This paper presents a review of capacitive readout front-end circuits for high-precision accelerometers. The primary design parameters and the trade-offs affecting the resolution are presented. The discussions apply to all capacitive microsensor interfaces. Also a high-sensitivity capacitive accelerometer interface circuit for hybrid-integration with a surface/bulk micromachined micro-g accelerometer is described [7, 10]. The first generation of the circuit resolves 75aF of capacitance on similar to 120pF parasitic capacitance with a 200kHz sampling rate, and the second generation resolves 20aF with 1MHz sampling rate. The overall sensor-circuit module has a noise floor of 1.6 mu g/root HZ at ambient atmosphere.

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Capacitive sensor readout circuit, MEMS accelerometer, Interface, Micro-g accelerometer

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46772

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Conference / Seminar