A MULTIPLE-BEAM TUNING-FORK GYROSCOPE WITH HIGH QUALITY FACTORS

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Wang, Ren [1 ]
Durgam, Shiva Krishna [1 ]
Hao, Zhili [1 ]
Vahala, Linda
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[1] Old Dominion Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
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TH [机械、仪表工业];
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This paper reports on the design, fabrication, and testing of a multiple-beam tuning-fork gyroscope featuring high Quality factors (Q). A multiple-beam tuning-fork structure is designed to achieve high Qs in its drive mode and sense mode. The gyroscope is fabricated on a 30 mu m-thick SOI wafer using a one-mask fabrication process. The measured Qs of the fabricated gyroscope are 162,060 in the drive-mode and 85,168 in the sense mode at an operation frequency of 16.8kHz. Under a frequency split of 6Hz, the prototype device demonstrates a rate sensitivity of 0.02mV/degrees/sec.
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