Micromachined High-Aspect-Ratio Parylene Spring and Its Application to Low-Frequency Accelerometers
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- Suzuki, Yuji
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Tai, Yu-Chong
Abstract
A new microfabrication technology for high-aspect-ratio parylene structure has been developed for soft spring applications. Free-standing parylene beams with widths of 10–40 µm and aspect ratios of 10–20 have been successfully fabricated. Since parylene has a small Young's modulus, a high-aspect-ratio beam with a spring constant of the order of 1 × 10^(-3) N/m has been realized. The large yield strain of parylene enables a test structure to have a large-amplitude oscillation of 600 µm_(p-p), without any failure of the high-aspect-ratio springs. An early prototype of in-plane capacitive accelerometer was also developed. It was found that its resonant frequency is as low as 37 Hz, and the noise spectral density is 64 µg/(Hz)^(0.5).
Additional Information
© 2006 IEEE. Reprinted with permission. Manuscript received May 18, 2005; revised January 20, 2006. [Posted online: 2006-10-30] This work was supported by the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. The work of Y. Suzuki was supported by Professor N. Kasagi of the University of Tokyo. Subject Editor R. R. A. Syms.Attached Files
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- Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, Caltech
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- University of Tokyo
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