Journal
MICROMACHINES
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi13030459
Keywords
MEMS; accelerometer; electrostatic assembly; stiffness softening
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51805441]
- Ningbo Natural Science Foundation [202003N4045]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [3102019JC002]
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This paper proposes a method of lowering the stiffness of capacitive-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors by using softened beams achieved through electrostatic assembly. The experiments demonstrate that the stiffness of the accelerometer is reduced by 43% and the sensitivity is increased by 72.6% with the softened beams. The result is a significant reduction in noise and bias instability of the accelerometer. The technique of electrostatic assembly-based stiffness softening is proven to be effective and applicable to various types of MEMS devices.
Lower stiffness can improve the performance of capacitive-based microelectromechanical systems sensors. In this paper, softened beams, achieved by the electrostatic assembly approach, are proposed to lower the stiffness of a capacitive MEMS accelerometer. The experiments show that the stiffness of the accelerometer is reduced by 43% with softened beams and the sensitivity is increased by 72.6%. As a result, the noise of the accelerometer is reduced to 26.2 mu g/root Hz with an improvement of 44.5%, and bias instability is reduced to 5.05 mu g with an enhancement of 38.7%. The electrostatic assembly-based stiffness softening technique is proven to be effective and can be used in many types of MEMS devices.
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