[en] This paper describes a high-resolution silicon-on-glass z axis gyroscope operating at atmospheric pressure. The mechanical structure is designed in such a way that it exhibits low cross coupling between drive and sense mode of less than 0.5% simulated using finite-element method and 1.35% verified by experimental measurements. Due to a symmetrically designed structure, the specified bandwidth can be maintained despite of fabrication imperfections. The fabrication process flow is based on a combination of silicon on glass bonding and deep reactive ion etching which results in a large proof mass and capacitances. A closed loop self-oscillation drive interface is used to resonate the gyroscope in the drive mode, which reaches steady-state after 150 ms. Using area-varying capacitors, large quality factors of 217 and 97 for drive and sense mode, respectively, were achieved operating at atmospheric pressure. A low drive voltage, with a 1 V peak-peak AC drive amplitude and 10 V DC bias was used to excite the drive mode. The measured scale factor was 10.7 mV/°/s in a range of ±300°/s with a R 2 -nonlinearity of 0.12%. The noise equivalent angular rate is 0.0015°/s/Hz 1/2 (=5.4°/h/Hz 1/2 ) in a 50 Hz bandwidth. The measured SNR was 34 dB at an angular rate input signal with an amplitude of 12.5°/s and a frequency of 10 Hz. Without any active temperature control, zero bias stability of 1°/s was achieved for long-term measurements over six hours and 0.3°/s for short-term measurements over 120 seconds (1-¿).
Disciplines :
Electrical & electronics engineering
Author, co-author :
Ding, Haitao
Liu, Xuesong
Lin, Longtao
Chi, Xiaozhu
Cui, Jian
Kraft, Michaël ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Systèmes microélectroniques intégrés
Yang, Zhenchuan
Yan, Guizhen
Language :
English
Title :
A high-resolution silicon-on-glass z axis gyroscope operating at atmospheric pressure
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
IEEE Sensors Journal
ISSN :
1530-437X
eISSN :
1558-1748
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, United States - New York
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