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[G-2-02] Design Technique of Serpentine Spring with Half Edge Span Beam Length for High Sensitivity Gold Proof-mass MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer

Kisuke Miyado1, Tenneti Devi Srujana1, Akira Onishi1, Katsuyuki Machida1, Tomoyuki Kurioka1, Parthojit Chakraborty1, Tso-Fu Mark Chang1, Masato Sone1, Yoshihiro Miyake1, Hiroyuki Ito1 (1. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan))

https://doi.org/10.7567/SSDM.2023.G-2-02

This paper proposes a serpentine spring design technique considering the edge span beam length L/2 and the key structure parameters influenced by the fabrication process for MEMS device. The Fedder model is suitable for the spring constant characteristics of finite element analysis with the edge span beam L/2. Further, the thickness t and width w are found to be dominant parameters of the serpentine spring constant k. The variation between the measured data kz of 4.46 N/m and the design value k0 of 4.15 N/m was 7.5%, satisfying the target of ±10%. This study confirms that the proposed technique can establish the serpentine spring for high sensitivity gold proof-mass MEMS accelerometers.