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A Study on the Performance Improvement of the Micromachined Convective Accelerometer

열 대류 가속도계의 성능향상에 관한 연구

  • Published : 2007.05.01
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Abstract

A micromachined convective accelerometer is a recently developed device. Typical micromachined accelerometers use a solid proof mass for measuring acceleration. But a micromachined convective accelerometer does not use a solid proof mass. A micromachined convective accelerometer is composed of a heating resistor and temperature sensors. This device measures acceleration by using convective heat transfer phenomenon. Therefore characteristics of a micromachined convective accelerometer are different as compared with typical micromachined accelerometer. In this research, we analyze the convective accelerometer by using transient convective heat transfer analysis. Based on the results of a convective accelerometer, we propose a new model which has improved performance.

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