Performance analysis on captive silicon micro-accelerometer system

摘要

The operational principle and the lumped parameters model of capacitive micro-accelerometer are introduced. The equivalent stiffness of different directions of the accelerometer is given. From the point of view of energy and mechanics, expressions of some key parameters, such as the damping, sensitivity, resolution of the accelerometer, are derived. The accelerometer noise behavior of mechanical-thermal noise in the open-loop system, along with the dynamic range of the open-loop system and closed-loop system is analyzed. The result is that the noise of the capacitive micro accelerometer is dominated by the magnitude of mechanical-thermal noise. At the same time, the magnitude of mechanical-thermal noise depends on the temperature and magnitude of mechanical damp. The result of the measurement from the implemented closed-loop micro-accelerometer system shows that the resolution is the level of mg, and the measurement range is from -50 g to 50 g.