• DocumentCode
    2693950
  • Title

    Uniaxial silicon piezoresistive accelerometer

  • Author

    Pavelescu, Loan ; Matei, Paula

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst., Bucharest, Romania
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    479
  • Abstract
    This work presents the theory and experimental studies for a silicon cantilever accelerometer with freestanding inertial mass. Such structure was 3D configured by anisotropic silicon etching on the both sides of the chip. The relative change of piezoresistance and the expression for sensitivity have been deduced. An analyse with finite element method based on ANSYS software was performed. Some elements about dynamical comportment are presented. Finally, the technological and experimental results are discussed
  • Keywords
    accelerometers; elemental semiconductors; etching; finite element analysis; micromachining; microsensors; piezoresistive devices; silicon; 3D structure; ANSYS program; Si; anisotropic etching; finite element analysis; free-standing inertial mass; piezoresistance; sensitivity; uniaxial silicon piezoresistive cantilever accelerometer; Accelerometers; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Bridges; Equations; Etching; Finite element methods; Particle beams; Piezoresistance; Silicon; Stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Conference, 2000. CAS 2000 Proceedings. International
  • Conference_Location
    Sinaia
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5885-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SMICND.2000.889136
  • Filename
    889136