Driveless Gyroscope Response of a Quartz Piezoelectric Vibratory Tuning Fork

• Authors: M. Abdel-Rahman , B. Albassam , M. Alduraibi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we report on the observation of a gyroscope response in the absence of drive oscillator circuitry in a single ended quartz piezoelectric tuning fork. The tuning fork gyroscope was fabricated by conventional photolithography and wet etching techniques. The tuning fork length is 4 mm and the stem length is 2 mm; the tuning fork width and thickness are 0.4 mm and 0.35 mm, respectively. The measured gyroscope sensitivity and signal to noise ratio were 0.22 mV/°/s and 40, respectively, at a rotational rate of 60 °/s.

Keywords

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85.85.+j

Discipline

• 85.85.+j: Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 127
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1352-1354

Dates

published

2015-04

Contributors

author

M. Abdel-Rahman

• Prince Sultan Advanced Technologies Research Institute (PSATRI), College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia

author

B. Albassam

• Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia

author

M. Alduraibi

• Physics and Astronomy Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
• National Center for Applied Physics, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KACST, P.O. Box 6086, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1352