標題: An optimal design of thermal-actuated and piezoresistive-sensed CMOS-MEMS resonant sensor
作者: Wang, Chun-Chieh
Tsai, Chun-Yin
Chen, Tsung-Lin
Liao, Sin-Hao
機械工程學系
Department of Mechanical Engineering
公開日期: 1-Nov-2013
摘要: This paper proposes an optimal design of the thermal-actuated, piezoresistive-sensed resonator fabricated by a foundry-provided CMOS-MEMS process. The optimal design is achieved both by quantitatively comparing the mechanical properties of different composite films as well as by deriving an analytical model for determining the device dimensions. The analytical model includes a stress model of an asymmetric mechanical structure and a piezoresistivity model of the heavily doped, n-type polysilicon film. The analytical model predicts that the optimal length of the displacement sensor is 200 mu m when the thermal actuator is 200 mu m in length and the absorption plate is 100 mu m in length. Additionally, the model predicts the resistivity of the polysilicon film of (6.8 +/- 2.2) m Omega cm and the gauge factor of (6.8 +/- 2.9) when the grain size is (250 +/- 100) nm. Experimental results agree well with simulation results. Experimental data show that the resonant frequency of the device is 80.06 kHz and shifts to 79.8 kHz when a brick of Pt mass is deposited on the resonator. The mass of the Pt estimated from the frequency shift is 4.5419 x 10(-12) kg, while estimated from the measured dimension is 4.4204 x 10(-12) kg. Sensitivity of the resonant sensor is calculated to be 1.8 x 10(2) Hz ng(-1). Experimental results further show that the polysilicon film used in the experiments has a grain size of (241 +/- 105) nm, an average gauge factor of 5.56 and average resistivity of 5.5 m Omega cm.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/23/11/115015
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/23063
ISSN: 0960-1317
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/23/11/115015
期刊: JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING
Volume: 23
Issue: 11
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