Development of a tri-axis vortex convective gyroscope with suspended silicon thermistors

Honglong Chang, Pingwei Zhou, Xianghui Gong, Jianbing Xie, Weizheng Yuan

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Abstract

This paper reports a tri-axis vortex convective gyroscope, in which a type of suspended silicon thermistor in arch shape is proposed to reduce the thermal-induced stress, heat dissipation to the substrate. The arch structure of the thermistor reduced the thermal-induced stress up to 86% as compared with the clamped-clamped thermistor in our previous work. The experimental test results showed that sensitivities of the sensor for X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis gyroscope were 0.642mV/°/s, 0.528mV/°/s and 0.241mV/°/s, respectively. The sensitivity improvement reached 49.65%, 56.21% and 51.57% for each axis. The measured nonlinearity for X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis gyroscope were 2.1%, 3.8% and 4.5% in the range of ±100°/s, respectively. An improvement of 23.53%, 36.67% and 6.25% on the linearity was obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE SENSORS 2013 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781467346405
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event12th IEEE SENSORS 2013 Conference - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: 4 Nov 20136 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Sensors

Conference

Conference12th IEEE SENSORS 2013 Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period4/11/136/11/13

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