{"title":"Complete Analysis of a Novel Fully Symmetric Decoupled Micromachined Gyroscope","authors":"A. Sharaf, S. Sedky, S. Habib","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a novel fully symmetric decoupled micromachined gyroscope (FSDMG). The proposed sensor has five masses, electrostatically driven to primary mode oscillation, and senses, capacitively, the output signal. The new structure achieves complete decoupling between drive and sense modes to minimize the mechanical crosstalk, thanks to the intermediate mass and decoupling beams. The fully symmetric structure helps to lower the zero rate output of the sensor. The manufacturing asymmetry can be overcome by four sets of adjustable electrodes surrounding the outer frame. Drive and sense amplitudes, mechanical and electrical sensitivities, quality factor and approximated bandwidth are extracted analytically and results are confirmed using finite element analysis (FEA). The designed sensor shows drive and sense modes resonance frequencies of 6391 Hz and 6393 Hz respectively; the frequency mismatch is lower than 0.03%. The drive and sense capacitance are 0.098 pF and 0.23 pF respectively. The FEA using ANSYS shows drive and sense frequency of 6187and 6199 Hz respectively for only 0.2% mismatch in resonance frequency. The output signal achieves 70 nm amplitude for 1 deg/s input rotation rate, which results in 0.83 aF change in the sense capacitance. The numerical value of both the mechanical and electrical sensitivities are 0.07 mum/(deg/s) and 17.5 mV/(deg/s) respectively","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114485751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Design of a Current-mode Wheatstone Bridge Using Operational Floating Current Conveyor","authors":"Y. Ghallab, Wael Badawy","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348213","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new topology for current-mode Wheatstone bridge (CMWB) that utilizes an operational floating current conveyor (OFCC) as a basic building block. The proposed CMWB has been analyzed, simulated, implemented and experimentally tested. The experimental results verify that the proposed CMWB out performs existing CMWBs in terms of accuracy","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128076283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral Modeling of RF-MEMS Disk Resonator","authors":"M. El-Shafie, M. Sakr, H. F. Ragai","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348209","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents behavioral modeling of RF-MEMS disk resonator through driving its equivalent circuit model. The model is operating in the first two radial contour modes and the results were verified with ANSYS. A Pierce oscillator utilizing the resonator model is designed to demonstrate the performance of the model on the oscillator. The oscillator performance like frequency and phase noise is presented","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"93 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132737028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determining the Required Pulses for Controlling the Operation of Electrostatic MEMS Converters","authors":"M. Salem, M. Salem, A. Zekry, H. F. Ragai","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348210","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this paper is to determine the required controlling pulses which control the charging and the discharging operations of the electrostatic MEMS converter. These converters found in the energy scavenging system for wireless sensor nodes. To achieve this objective, a SPICE model for the converter is implemented in order to describe its behavior. Thus the required controlling pulses are determined by simulating the interaction between the converter model and the energy scavenging system","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132865364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanical Strain Measurements Using Semiconductor Piezoresistive Material","authors":"A. Mohammed, W. Moussa, E. Lou","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348204","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the design of a MEMS-based strain sensor has been introduced. This design has high sensitivity, low power consumption compared with the commercially available thin-foil strain gauges, and high absolute resolution. All of these are at high signal stability over a wide temperature range. The piezoresistivity theory, the microfabrication process flow and the finite element simulation have been introduced to provide guidelines for the sensor design process","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130858296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SoC - what are our technology futures?","authors":"G. Jullien","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348201","url":null,"abstract":"Many of us discovered that we were working in System-on-Chip technology by default! The technology to put hundreds of millions of transistors on a monolithic CMOS digital chip became available over the past few years; we adopted it and became de facto SoC researchers. However, as SoC has come on stream we have also started to see cracks appearing in the technology. 3rd order effects ofjust a few years ago have become predominant problems, and previous performance predictions have been shown to be false. This talk will undoubtedly produce more questions than answers, but, as an interested observer of the technologies we play with in our sand box, I will try to ponder on some of the issues - and muse on how those amongst us, who normally only observe, can also play a role in defining and exploring promising future technologies. Brief Bio: Graham Jullien holds the iCORE Chair in Advanced Technology Information Processing Systems, and is the Director of the ATIPS Laboratories, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. His long-term research interests are in the areas of Integrated Circuits (including SoC), VLSI Signal Processing, Computer Arithmetic, High Performance Parallel Architectures, and Number Theoretic Techniques. Since taking up his chair position at Calgary in 2001, he has expanded his research interests to include security systems, nano-electronic technologies and biomedical systems. He is currently involved, along with his colleagues, in developing an Integration Laboratory cluster to explore next generation integrated microsystems. Dr.","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"689 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116094420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System on Chip (SOC) design pressures reach critical point","authors":"Hazem ElTahawy","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122591627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flow Field Visualization by Micro-PIV in an X-shaped Microfluidic Channel with Two Streams","authors":"Jin‐Cherng Shyu, Falin Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348203","url":null,"abstract":"In order to well design a microfluidic fuel cell, a preliminary study of flow field visualization by micro-PIV in an X-shaped microfluidic channel with two streams was performed. Both streams with either the same or different flow rates were fed through two branches of an X-shaped microchannel. The visualization results show that the multi-streams for all tests are kept laminar over entire channel even if the different flow rates are fed. Besides, the X-shaped microchannel was confirmed that such design could separate two streams without any mixing at the exit of the main channel for further utilization of these liquids","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114847453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth of Grains Effect on Boron Diffusion in Heavily Implanted Polycrystalline silicon Thin Films","authors":"S. Abadli, F. Mansour","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348207","url":null,"abstract":"A one-dimensional two stream diffusion model adapted to the granular structure of polysilicon and to the effects of the strong concentrations has been developed. This model includes dopant clustering in grains as well as in grain boundaries. Growth of grains and energy barrier height are coupled with the dopant diffusion coefficients and the process temperature based on thermodynamic concepts. The adjustment of the simulated profiles with the experimental SIMS profiles for short treatment times ranging between 1 and 30 minutes at temperature of 700degC; allowed the validation of this model. Growth of grains and strong-concentrations phenomena are the major effects during annealing processes. They play a significant role for the precise determination of the diffusion profiles","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"74 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122499587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and Modeling of RF-MEMS Disk Resonator","authors":"M. Sakr, M. El-Shafie, H. F. Ragai","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348208","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analysis and modeling of MEMS disk resonator. The main parameters that describe the operation of the disk are the quality factor, natural frequency and equivalent mass. In this work the frequency relation versus Poisson's ratio of the material and a general equation for the equivalent mass of disk resonator are obtained for different vibration modes of the disk resonator. The resulting model is formulated such that it can be coded by any suitable language such as systemC, verilog-AMS or VHDL-AMS. The model is verified by ANSYS","PeriodicalId":156757,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115138925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}