CMU MEMS Laboratory Publication Abstract

 

	in Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors Conference (IEEE Sensors), pp. 1413-1418, July 11-14, 2002, Orlando, Florida.
	A DRIE MEMS Gyroscope
	H. Xie and G. Fedder ABSTRACT:
	The gyroscope reported in this paper is a lateral-axis angular rate sensor with in-plane vibration and out-of-plane Coriolis acceleration sensing. The sensor plus on-chip CMOS circuitry is about 1 mm by 1 mm in size and is fabricated by a post-CMOS micromachining process that uses interconnect metal layers as etching mask(s) and a single-crystal silicon layer as the structural material. The resultant device incorporates both 1.8 µm-thick thin-film structures and 60 µm-thick bulk Si structures to simultaneously achieve spring beams with either in-plane or out-of-plane compliance. The microstructure is flat and avoids the curling problem existing in thin-film CMOS gyroscopes. A unique silicon electrical isolation technique is used to obtain individually controllable comb fingers. The noise floor of the gyroscope is 0.02 º/s/Hz½ at 5 Hz.
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