EE 45 ME 8 Introduction to MEMS Design Fall 003 Roger Howe and Thara Srinivasan Lecture 6 Micromechanical Resonators I Today s Lecture ircuit models for micromechanical resonators Microresonator oscillators: sustaining amplifiers, amplitude limiters, and noise Resonant inertial sensors: accelerometers and gyroscopes
Reading/Reference List. T.. Nguyen, h.d. Thesis, Dept. of EES, U Berkeley, 994. T. A. Roessig, R. T. Howe, A.. isano, and J. H. Smith, Surfacemicromachined resonant accelerometer, Transducers 97, hicago, Ill., June 69, 997, pp. 85986. A. A. Seshia, R. T. Howe, and S. Montague, An integrated microelectromechanical resonantoutput gyroscope, IEEE MEMS 00, Las egas, Nevada, January 00. net lecture. T.. Nguyen, Transceiver frontend architectures using vibrating micromechanical signal processors, Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated ircuits in RF Systems, Sept. 4, 00, pp. 33. J. Wang, Z. Ren, and. T.. Nguyen, Selfaligned.4 GHz vibrating radialmode disk resonator, Transducers 03, Boston, Mass., June 8, 003, pp. 947950. B. Bircumshaw, et al, The radial bulk annular resonator: towards a 50Ω RF MEMS filter, Transducers 03, Boston, Mass., June 8, 003. M. U. Demirci, M. A. Abdelmoneum, and. T.. Nguyen, Mechanically cornercoupled square microresonator array for reduced series motional resistance, Transducers 03, Boston, Mass., June 8, 003, pp. 955958.. Kaaakari, et al, Squareetensional mode singlecrystal silicon micromechanical RFresonator, Transducers 03, Boston, Mass., June 8, 003, pp. 89894. 3 ombdrive Lateral Resonator Anchor connects ground plane and resonator Typical bias: I O 0 D voltage across drive and sense electrodes to resonator. T.. Nguyen, h.d. Thesis, EES Dept., U Berkeley, 994 4
The Lateral Resonator as a Twoort. T.. Nguyen, h.d. Thesis, EES Dept., U Berkeley, 994 5 Input urrent Input current i t is the derivative of the charge q v D dv i t v dt d dt D D The capacitance has a D component and a timevarying component due to the motion of the structure t o m m t t linearized case t Substitute to find the input current: vd t I v t v t 6 3
4 7 Input Motional Admittance Y w hasor form of the motional current i : I Y The displacementtovoltage ratio can be reepressed in terms of the drive force F d The input motional admittance inverse of impedance is the ratio of the phasor motional current to the ac drive voltage: X I F F X Y d d F F X Y d d 8 Input Admittance ont. The electrostatic force component at the drive frequency is: t v t v t f D d, The mechanical response of the resonator is Lecture 9: F d F X d The input admittance is: I
Series LR Admittance The current through an LR branch is: I L I / o R o L R Match terms in motional admittance find equivalent elements 9 Equivalent ircuit for Input ort A series LR circuit results in the identical epression find equivalent values L,, and R m L η η k km R η Qη electromechanical coupling coefficient I o L R At resonance, the impedances of the inductance and the capacitance cancel out I R 0 5
6 Output ort Model onsider first the current due to driving the input set v 0 t t t i In phasor form, / / Q k X I o o I and I are related by the forward current gain φ : I I φ model by a currentcontrolled current source Twoort Equivalent ircuit v 0 L R o I φ I 0 I
omplete Twoort Model I L L I o φ I φ I o R R Symmetry implies that modeling can be done from port, with port shorted superimpose the two models 3 Equivalent ircuit for Symmetrical Resonator f f. T.. Nguyen, h.d., U Berkeley, 994 4 7
455 khz ombdrive Resonator alues L assumes vacuum not small huge! mindboggling!. T.. Nguyen, h.d., U Berkeley, 994 5 DoubleEnded Tuning Fork Resonators i 0 urrent through structure more resistance decreases Q more feedthroughto substrate T. Roessig, h.d.,me, U Berkeley, 997 6 8
Ideal Tuning Fork Twoort Response hase change of 80 o at resonance pins the frequency, with drifts in the feedback amplifier having little effect Response assumes no feedthroughcapacitance between input and output ports T. Roessig, h.d.,me, U Berkeley, 997 7 Tuning Fork Response with apacitive Feedthrough f Feedthroughcapacitance results in a null in the amplitude response and an added sense current which increases with frequency and which can obscure the resonance entirely! R int drive v d int f R eq L eq eq o o structure node R int int i s Net lecture: f and its control sense T. Roessig, h.d.,me, U Berkeley, 997 8 9
Microresonator Oscillator. T.. Nguyen and R. T. Howe, IEEE J. SolidState ircuits, 34, 440454 999. 9 urrenttooltage or Transresistance Amplifier R f i in i 0 v out The feedback resistor can be implemented using a MOSFET biased in the triode region 0 0
Microresonator Oscillator Schematic Transresistance amplifier:. T.. Nguyen and R. T. Howe, IEEE J. SolidState ircuits, 34, 440454 999. Integrated 6.5 khz Microresonator Oscillator MOS with tungsten metallization olysi lateral resonator. T.. Nguyen and R. T. Howe, IEEE J. SolidState ircuits, 34, 440454 999. Erratic chaotic behavior observed for high D biases in this and other MEMS oscillators was later eplained by Kim Turner h.d. ornell, 999, now USB
ierce Oscillator Schematic crystal doubleended tuning fork Advantage over transr configuration: A. A. Seshia, et al, MSM0, San Juan, uerto Rico 3 TuningFork Oscillator Neararrier Spectrum ierce Topology output power dbc/hz Measured rmsnoise thermal electronic noise A. A. Seshia, et al, IEEE MEMS0. frequency 0 5 Hz 4
Differential Resonant Accelerometer Inertial force is coupled from a proof mass through a leverage system to two DETF oscillators in a pushpull manner tension compression T. Roessig, h.d.,me, U Berkeley, 997 5 Leverage Mechanism DETF oscillators are etremely stiff to forces along their length, which makes mechanical amplification feasible In the ideal case of a perfect pivot, Archimedes F out / F in r in / r out T. Roessig, h.d.,me, U Berkeley, 997 6 3
Resonant Accelerometer erformance Fractional RA measures instability of an oscillator as a function of integration time. RA min 6 0 8 at τ sec for 70 khz DETF oscillators f min 0.004 Hz. Sensitivity 45 Hz/g a min 90 µg T. Roessig, h.d.,me, U Berkeley, 997 7 ResonantOutput Rate Gyroscope frame suspension outer frame direction of motion tuning fork oscillator proof mass oscillator lever arm tuning fork oscillator F c Ω z z fied free y drive fleure sense direction A. A. Seshia, h.d. Thesis EES Dept., U Berkeley May 00 8 4
ResonantOutput Gyro: Mechanical Element reference resonator proof mass fleure tuning fork force sensor tuning fork force sensor proof mass error correction outer frame selftest electrodes lever arm A. A. Seshia, et al, IEEE MEMS0. 9 ResonantOutput Gyroscope Die Shot Tuning Fork Drive Electronics roof Mass Drive Electronics Mechanical Structure 4.5 mm z y A. A. Seshia, et al, IEEE MEMS0. Sandia IMEMS MEMSfirst process 30 5
Sideband Modulation by oriolis Force Oscillator output power dbm A. A. Seshia, et al, IEEE MEMS0. DETF oscillator output oriolis offset Nominal peak Frequency 0 5 Hz oriolis offset sideband output in presence of an applied deg/sec rotation rate at 6 Hz. Output sideband power dbµ Output sideband power dbµ 40 35 30 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 Rotation rate signal Offset 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 60 60 630 640 Frequency offset from carrier Hz 35 30 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 sideband output in the absence of rotation 50 540 560 580 600 60 640 Frequency offset from carrier Hz 3 6