• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2001

A microgyroscope, which vibrates in two orthogonal axes on the substrate plane, is designed and fabricated. The shuttle mass of the vibrating gyroscope consists of two parts. The one is outer shuttle mass which vibrates in driving mode guided by four folded springs attached to anchors. And the other is inner shuttle mass which vibrates in driving mode as the outer frame does and also can vibrate in sensing mode guided by four folded springs attached to the outer shuttle mass. Due to the directions of vibrating mode, it is possible to fabricate the gyroscope with simplified process by using polysilicon on insulator structure. Fabrication processes of the microgyroscope are composed of anisotropic silicon etching by RIE, gas-phase etching (GPE) of the buried sacrificial oxide layer, metal electrode formation. An eletromechanical model of the vibrating microgyroscope was modeled and bandwidth characteristics of the gyroscope operates at DC 4V and AC 0.1V in a vacuum chamber of 100mtorr. The detection circuit consists of a discrete sense amplifier and a noise canceling circuit. Using the evaluated electromechanical model, an operating condition for high performance of the gyroscope is obtained.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1968-1970
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• 1996

We investigate a surface-micromachined polysilicon microgyroscope, whose resonant frequencies are electrostatically-tunable after fabrication. The microgyroscope with two oscillation nudes has been designed so that the resonant frequency in the sensing mode is higher than that in the actuating mode. The microgyroscope has been fabricated by a 4-mask surface-micrormachining process, including the deep RIE of a $6{\mu}m$-thick LPCVD polycrystalline silicon layer. The resonant frequency in the sensing mode has been lowered to that in actuating mode through the adjustment of an inter-plate bias voltage; thereby achieving a frequency matching at 5.8kHz under the bias voltage of 2V in a reduced pressure of 0.1torr. For an input angular rate of $50^{\circ}/sec$, an output signal of 20mV has been measured from the tuned microgyroscope under an AC drive voltage of 2V with a DC bias voltage of 3V.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.1065-1074
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• 2004

A robust optimal design considering fabrication influence has been performed for the decoupled vibratory microgyroscope fabricated by the bulk micromachining. For the analysis of the gyroscope, a design tool has been developed, by which user can perform the system level design considering electric signal process and the fabrication influence as well as mechanical characteristics. An initial design of the gyroscope is performed satisfying the performances of scale factor (or sensitivity) and phase delay, which depend on the frequency difference between driving and sensing resonant frequencies. The objective functions are formulated in order to reduce the variances of the frequency difference and the frequency in itself by fabrication error. To certify the results, the standard deviations are calculated through the Monte Caries Simulation (MCS) and compared initial deviation that is measured fabricated gyroscope chip.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.149-154
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• 2008

The concept of robust design was introduced by Dr. G. Taguchi in the late 1940s, and his technique has become commonly known as the Taguchi method or the robust design. In this research, a robust design procedure for microgyroscope is suggested based on the kriging and optimization approaches. The kriging interpolation method is introduced to obtain the surrogate approximation model of true function. Robustness is calculated by the kriging model to reduce real function calculations. For this, objective function is represented by the probability of success, thus facilitating robust optimization. The statistics such as mean and variance are obtained based on the reliable kriging model and the second-order statistical approximation method.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 1998년도 IUMRS-ICEM ABSTRACT BOOK
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• pp.116.1-116
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• 1998

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2022-2024
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 진동형 마이크로 자이로스코프를 위한 폐루프 제어기를 설계하였으며 실험을 통하여 설계된 제어기의 성능을 검증하였다. 일반적으로 진동형 자이로스코프를 동작시키기 위해서는 구동축과 검출축의 공진 모드가 일치되도륵 설계를 하며 높은 감도를 얻기 위해서는 이 두 모드의 Q값이 클수록 유리하다. 하지만 이러한 개루프 상에서 동작 하에서는 대역폭과 선형성 등의 성능에 제약을 가져오게 되며 이를 개선하기 위해 폐루프 제어기가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 진공도에 따른 Q값의 변화와 이에 따른 제어기의 성능을 분석하였으며 실험 결과로부터 설계된 제어기가 만족할만한 성능의 개선을 가져옴을 확인하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2000

A new resonator that is fabricated by single polysilicon layer process is presented. The resonator can move in two orthogonal direction on the plane parallel to the substrate. And the resonant frequencies of the two modes are intrinsically designed to be identical since the overall structure of the resonator is symmetric about the two directions of motion. Since the resonator ideally has two identical vibration mode, it can be applied to various micro-devices that requires multi DOF motion, especially to microgyroscopes. To investigate the feasibility of application of the resonator, dynamic model of the resonator including the nonlinear behavior of driving electrodes is derived and evaluated with the fabricated one, and the self-tuning characteristics are proved though experiments.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.390-396
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• 2010

An 80MHz surface acoustic wave (SAW)-based gyroscope utilizing a progressive wave was developed on a piezoelectric substrate. The developed sensor consists of two SAW oscillators in which one is used for sensing element and has metallic dots in the cavity between input and output IDTs. The other is used for a reference element. Coupling of mode (COM) modeling was conducted to determine the optimal device parameters prior to fabrication. According to the simulation results, the device was fabricated and then measured on a rate table. When the device was subjected to an angular rotation, oscillation frequency differences between the two oscillators were observed because of the Coriolis force acting on the metallic dots. Depending on the angular rate, the difference of the oscillation frequency was modulated. The obtained sensitivity was approximately 52.35 Hz/deg.s within the angular rate range of 0~1000 deg/s. The performances of devices with three IDT structures for two kinds of piezoelectric substrates were characterized. Good thermal stability was also observed during the evaluation process.

• 센서학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2001

기존의 진동형 마이크고 자이로스코프는 고감도화를 이루기 위해 구동 모드와 검출 모드를 동조시킬 필요성이 있었다. 본 연구에서는 고유하게 조율된 두 개의 공진 모드를 갖는 광진기를 이용하여 자가동조 특성을 갖는 마이크로 자이로스프로의 응용에 대한 타당성을 검증한다. 진동하는 두 축에 대해 대칭의 구조를 가지는 2자유도 수평 공진기가 모드 동조의 필요성을 최소화하는 자이로스코프로의 응용을 위해 소개된다. 자이로스코프의 적용을 고려한 동역학적 모델이 도출되고 이는 제조된 마이크로 자이로스코프와 실험을 통해 비교 검증 된다. 마이크로 자이로스코프의 구조체는 산화막 위의 폴리실리콘 박막으로 구성되어 간단한 2마스크 공정으로 제조 가능하다. 자가동조 특성을 갖는 진동형 자이로스코프로서의 타당성이 해석 결과와 실험을 통해 검증되었다. 8개의 실험 시편에 대해서 구동 및 검출 모드의 공진 주파수를 측정했을 때, 구동 및 검출 모드의 공진 주파수에 대한 표준편차가 각각 1232Hz와 1214HZ인데 반해 비동조 주파수의 평균값은 91.75Hz를 나타내 우수한 자가동조 특성을 보였다. 샘플 중 최소 비동조 주파수는 68Hz였고 이때의 감도는 $0.034mV/sec/^{\circ}$로 측정되어 공정의 불균일성이 개선되면 녹은 감도를 구현학 수 있는 자이로스코프로서의 타당성을 확인할 수 있었다.