• DocumentCode
    1878869
  • Title

    A Novel High Performance Micromechanical Resonant Electrostatic Field Sensor Used In Atmospheric Electric Field Detection

  • Author

    Peng, Chunrong ; Chen, Xianxiang ; Bai, Qiang ; Luo, Lei ; Xia, Shanhong

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100039, China
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    2006
  • Firstpage
    698
  • Lastpage
    701
  • Abstract
    This paper reports a high performance micromechanical resonant electrostatic field sensor (EFS) that is fabricated with a three-layer polysilicon surface micromachining process. The EFS has a high resolution of 100V/m when used in ambient air at room temperature. The driving voltage is 25V DC and 0.3Vp-p AC lower than other reported electrostatic comb driven devices. Experimental results show that the EFS can be succeeded in atmospheric electric field detecting.
  • Keywords
    Atmospheric measurements; Blades; Electric fields; Electrodes; Electrostatic measurements; Micromachining; Micromechanical devices; Milling machines; Resonance; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2006. MEMS 2006 Istanbul. 19th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul, Turkey
  • ISSN
    1084-6999
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9475-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MEMSYS.2006.1627895
  • Filename
    1627895