Title
Determination of electrical and mechanical parameters in capacitive MEMS accelerometers using electrical measurements
Abstract
This paper describes a simple technique for characterization of capacitive MEMS accelerometers. The method is based on electrical impedance (admittance) measurements of capacitive MEMS accelerometers treated as electrostatically-driven microelectromechanical resonators. By using this method, it is possible to determine some electrical and mechanical parameters including the shunt capacitance, the mechanical resonance frequency and quality factor. These parameters may serve as measures of structural integrity of the tested structures and their packages during reliability testing, for instance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.microrel.2011.03.035
Microelectronics Reliability
Keywords
Field
DocType
electrical impedance,resonant frequency,quality factor
Q factor,Capacitance,Microelectromechanical systems,Electrical measurements,Electrical impedance,Capacitive sensing,Electronic engineering,Mechanical resonance,Engineering,Admittance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
51
7
0026-2714
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stanisław Kaliciński141.64
Tomasz Bieniek202.03
Pawel Janus311.22
Piotr Grabiec422.61