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Low-Energy Consumption Actuation for Microelectrothermal Actuators via Capacitive Discharge Excitation 电容放电激励微电热执行器的低能耗驱动

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3540417

Xiaoyu Kong;Yun Cao;Shenghong Lei;Hengbo Zhu;Weirong Nie;Zhanwen Xi

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Electrofusion Device With High-Aspect-Ratio Electrodes for the Controlled Fusion of Lipid Vesicles 用于脂质囊泡控制融合的高纵横比电极电融合装置

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3530466

Tsutomu Okita;Mamiko Tsugane;Kosuke Kato;Keisuke Shinohara;Hiroaki Suzuki

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Corrections to “Parallel In-Plane Electrothermal Actuators” 修正“平行平面内电热致动器”

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3528660

Yen Nee Ho;Aron Michael;Chee Yee Kwok;Cibby Pulikkaseril

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Publication Information 微机电系统出版信息学报

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2024.3523667

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Bidirectional Thermo-Acoustic Modulator Based on LiNbO₃ Thin Film 基于LiNbO₃薄膜的双向热声调制器

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2024.3510540

Xuankai Xu;Yushuai Liu;Tao Wu

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Sensing Voltage at Electrically Floating Nodes: A Path Toward Enhancing Performance and Robustness in Capacitive MEMS Resonators 电浮节点感应电压：电容式MEMS谐振器增强性能和稳健性的途径

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3528762

Disha Chugh;Hyun-Keun Kwon;Gabrielle D. Haddon-Vukasin;Thomas W. Kenny;Saurabh A. Chandorkar

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Overcoming Welding and Contact Degradation Failures Incurred by Complementary N/MEMS Logic Gate Structures Fabricated on SOI Wafers 基于SOI晶圆的互补N/MEMS逻辑门结构焊接和接触退化失效的克服

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3526543

Bennett Smith;Md Ataul Mamun;Benjamin Horstmann;Ümit Özgür;Vitaliy Avrutin

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Study of Stiction Mitigation in Micromachine Structures via Naphthalene Sublimation 通过萘升华缓解微机械结构中的粘滞问题研究

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3527416

Hamed Nikfarjam;Sepehr Sheikhlari;Siavash Pourkamali

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Activation Model of Nano Getter for MEMS Devices Based on Sandwich Structures of Au-Porous Ti-Dense Ti Film 基于au多孔Ti-致密Ti膜夹层结构的MEMS器件纳米吸气剂活化模型

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2025.3526153

Haowen Hu;Zhiyu Sun;Chenzhe Du;Qiancheng Zhao;Yufeng Jin;Jian Cui

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Modeling Temperature Effects in a MEMS Ring Gyroscope: Toward Physics-Aware Drift Compensation 模拟 MEMS 环形陀螺仪的温度效应：实现物理感知漂移补偿

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Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2024.3524796

Mehran Hosseini-Pishrobat;Erdinc Tatar

{"title":"Modeling Temperature Effects in a MEMS Ring Gyroscope: Toward Physics-Aware Drift Compensation","authors":"Mehran Hosseini-Pishrobat;Erdinc Tatar","doi":"10.1109/JMEMS.2024.3524796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2024.3524796","url":null,"abstract":"Temperature plays an indispensable role in the long-term performance of MEMS gyroscopes, and despite extensive studies in the literature, analytical treatment of temperature effects is still an open problem. This paper, to the best of our knowledge, is the first attempt to address this gap for ring gyroscopes. We start with a superposition principle that disentangles thermal displacement fields from the gyroscope’s nominal vibration. We set forth a geometrically nonlinear variational formulation to obtain the temperature-induced stiffness matrix. We conduct temperature tests on our 3.2 mm-diameter, 58 kHz ring gyroscopes equipped with 16 capacitive stress sensors. The experimental data validate our analytical modeling in the following key aspects: 1) The model accounts for not only changes in material properties but also a less explored factor, thermal stresses. Thanks to a strain interpolation module that leverages the measured stresses, the model predicts frequency variations consistently and captures hysteresis loops arising from residual stresses. Notably, we accurately estimate the deviation of the temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) from the expected value −30 ppm/°C (based on the widely known −60 ppm/°C dependency of Young’s modulus of silicon). 2) The model is able to capture stiffness couplings in the orders of less than 0.1 N/m (in a 7 kN/m device) and closely predicts the quadrature error and its leakage into the in-phase channel. Additionally, the model incorporates temperature variations of mechanical scale factor, drive mode’s amplitude, damping coupling, and sense mode’s phase in terms of their contribution to the in-phase error. Based on these merits, our model serves as a building block toward drift compensation algorithms encompassing the underlying physics of the temperature effects. [2024-0163]","PeriodicalId":16621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"150-163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10843100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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