학술논문

Decoupled Comb Capacitors for Microelectromechanical Tuning-Fork Gyroscopes
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Electron Device Letters IEEE Electron Device Lett. Electron Device Letters, IEEE. 31(1):26-28 Jan, 2010
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Capacitors
Gyroscopes
Micromechanical devices
Crosstalk
Capacitance
Analytical models
Electrostatic analysis
Coupling circuits
Feedback circuits
Adaptive control
Decoupling
gyroscopes
microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices
Language
ISSN
0741-3106
1558-0563
Abstract
This letter presents a novel comb capacitor which can decouple the mechanical crosstalk between the sensing and driving modes of gyroscopes. The capacitance and electrostatic force of the comb capacitor are simulated and analyzed to verify the decoupling principle. A lateral-axis tuning-fork gyroscope is used successfully to demonstrate the decoupling capability of the comb capacitor, resulting in a nonlinearity of 0.6% with full scale of 1000 $^{\circ}/\hbox{s}$ and a bias stability of 0.05 $^{\circ}/\hbox{s}\ (\hbox{1}\sigma)$ for 30 min.