CMU MEMS Laboratory Publication Abstract

 

in Technical Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM), pp. 186-189, April 22-25, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Simulation of Manufacturing Variations in a z-axis CMOS-MEMS Gyroscope
S. V. Iyer and T. Mukherjee
ABSTRACT:
This paper uses MEMS circuit-level simulation to correlate gyro performance measures such as zero rate output (ZRO), linear acceleration sensitivity (Sa) and cross-axis sensitivity (Sca) to geometrical asymmetries. Elastic and electrostatic asymmetries in the gyroscope may arise due to device-level manufacturing variations in beam width, comb gap and metal mask misalignment in the CMOS-MEMS process. Analytical equations for the non-idealities are derived and compared with the simulation results. The analyses and simulations are used to develop pointers for robust design as well as manufacturing tolerances for limiting non-idealities.
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