• DocumentCode
    2735820
  • Title

    Interface circuit for capacitive microaccelerometer

  • Author

    Liu, Minjie ; Zhang, Gang ; Dong, Jingxin ; Zhao, Changde

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Precision Instrum. & Mechanology, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    10-13 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    654
  • Lastpage
    657
  • Abstract
    This paper reports an interface circuit that provides an interface from capacitive MEMS sensors to other signal processing circuits. The interface circuit designed specially for capacitive accelerometer and gyroscopes applications is implemented in 0.35-mum 2P-4M CMOS process and measurement results that indicate the interface circuit resolves 7.3 aF of capacitance with a 1 MHz sampling rate and has a rough noise floor of 0.2 aF/Hz@1 KHz at ambient atmosphere are presented.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; accelerometers; capacitive sensors; microsensors; capacitance 7.3 aF; capacitive MEMS sensors; capacitive accelerometer; capacitive microaccelerometer; frequency 1 MHz; frequency 1 kHz; gyroscopes applications; interface circuit; signal processing circuits; size 0.35 micron; Accelerometers; Atmospheric measurements; CMOS process; Capacitance measurement; Capacitive sensors; Circuits; Gyroscopes; Micromechanical devices; Noise measurement; Signal processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2008. MWSCAS 2008. 51st Midwest Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Knoxville, TN
  • ISSN
    1548-3746
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2166-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1548-3746
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSCAS.2008.4616884
  • Filename
    4616884