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Micro-G silicon accelerometers with high performance CMOS interface circuitry

Yazdi, 1999

Document ID: 9539229754507698653
Author: Yazdi N
Publication year: 1999

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High precision micro-g accelerometers are widely used in applications such as inertial navigation, microgravity measurements and seismology. The objective of this dissertation is to design and develop a z-axis micro-g accelerometer with high sensitivity, low noise, low …

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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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- G01P15/00—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration
- G01P15/02—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses
- G01P15/08—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values
- G01P15/125—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values by capacitive pick-up
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- G01P2015/0811—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values being provided with a particular type of spring-mass-system for defining the displacement of a seismic mass due to an external acceleration for defining in-plane movement of the mass, i.e. movement of the mass in the plane of the substrate for one single degree of freedom of movement of the mass
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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