Abstract:This paper reports a newly developed z-axis capacitive accelerometer with high durability to impacts. Our accelerometer has a unique sensing mechanism by which the displacement of an inertial mass caused by an acceleration in the z-axis direction is converted into the rotational displacement of a pair of detection plates. Our accelerometer has a high degree of design freedom in terms of selecting the resonant frequency and sensitivity. While maintaining a constant sensitivity, the resonance frequency and etchi… Show more
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