Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
Volume 333, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2021.113234
Keywords
Drain current; Dynamic range; Piezoresistive oscillator; Joule heating effect; Frequency stability
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFB2002303]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52075432]
- Program for Innovation Team of Shaanxi Province [2021TD-23]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of High-End Manufacturing Equipment and International Joint Laboratory for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement Technologies
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Joule heating in micromechanical resonators has potential for various applications, but its effects on resonator performance are not fully understood. We established a theoretical model and conducted experiments to study this effect. The results showed that Joule heating can enhance the dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio of the resonator. Furthermore, the frequency stability of piezoresistive oscillators improved with increasing drain current.
Joule heating is more widely existed in micromechanical resonators, and is also an innovative approach for the implementation of mechanical resonator in a broad range of fields such as timing applications, filters and sensors. However, the physical mechanism by which Joule heating affects the performance of resonator has not been thoroughly studied, and the ability to accurately control heat and suppress thermal noise in micro-and nanomechanical resonators remains a key challenge limiting practical applications as well. In this paper, we established the theoretical model based on temperature variation to explain the physical mechanism of the Joule heating effect on the performance of resonator. In the experiment, when the drain current increased from 3.35 mA to 11.62 mA, the dynamic range enhanced by 20.3 dB, which verified that the drain current can be conducive to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of resonator. Intuitively, adding Joule heating will make more thermal noise for the system, which will deteriorate the frequency stability of oscillator. However, there was a counterintuitive phenomenon in piezoresistive oscillator. Contrary to the capacitive oscillator, for a self-sustained mechanical oscillator based on piezoresistive detection method, the frequency stability of oscillator will be improved as the drain current increases. The experimental result showed that the Allan deviation have improved with a slope of -11.22ppb/mA. Our finding revealed the potential of joule heating for applications in high dynamic range sensors and time reference oscillators, as well as the fundamental study of the temperature variation and energy dissipation in micro and nano systems. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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