“…An important issue in the theoretical analysis of small-scale mechanisms is to take into account small-size effects (Akgöz & Civalek, 2011;Dai, Wang, & Wang, 2015;Dehrouyeh-Semnani, 2014;Kahrobaiyan, Rahaeifard, Tajalli, & Ahmadian, 2012;Karparvarfard, Asghari, & Vatankhah, 2015;Kong, Zhou, Nie, & Wang, 2008) on the dynamical performance; this has been ignored in the dynamical performance analysis of microgyroscopes. This paper is the first which takes this effect into account via use of the modified couple stress theory (Dehrouyeh-Semnani, 2015;Ghayesh & Farokhi, 2015a, 2015bGhayesh, Farokhi, & Alici, 2015;Mohammadabadi, Daneshmehr, & Homayounfard, 2015;Rahaeifard, 2015;Şim¸sek & Reddy, 2013). As we shall see, this effect changes the sensitivity of the system.…”