Abstract
AbstractWith the increasing demand for multidirectional vibration measurements, traditional triaxial accelerometers cannot achieve vibration measurements with high sensitivity, high natural frequency, and low cross-sensitivity simultaneously. Moreover, for piezoresistive accelerometers, achieving pure axial deformation of the piezoresistive beam can greatly improve performance, but it requires the piezoresistive beam to be located in a specific position, which inevitably makes the design more complex and limits the performance improvement. Here, a monolithically integrated triaxial high-performance accelerometer with pure axial stress piezoresistive beams was designed, fabricated, and tested. By controlling synchronous displacements at both piezoresistive beam ends, the pure axial stress states of the piezoresistive beams could be easily achieved with position independence without tedious calculations. The measurement unit for the z-axis acceleration was innovatively designed as an interlocking proof mass structure to ensure a full Wheatstone bridge for sensitivity improvement. The pure axial stress state of the piezoresistive beams and low cross-sensitivity of all three units were verified by the finite element method (FEM). The triaxial accelerometer was fabricated and tested. Results showing extremely high sensitivities (x axis: 2.43 mV/g/5 V; y axis: 2.44 mv/g/5 V; z axis: 2.41 mV/g/5 V (without amplification by signal conditioning circuit)) and high natural frequencies (x/y axes: 11.4 kHz; z-axis: 13.2 kHz) were obtained. The approach of this paper makes it simple to design and obtain high-performance piezoresistive accelerometers.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics,Materials Science (miscellaneous),Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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