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Design of a micromachined thermal accelerometer: thermal simulation and experimental results

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This paper describes numerical simulation of a micromachined thermal accelerometer and experimental measurements. The sensor principle consists of a heating resistor, which creates a symmetrical temperature profile, and two temperature detectors symmetrically placed on both sides of the heater. When an acceleration is applied, the free convection is modified, the temperature profile becomes asymmetric and the two detectors measure the differential temperature. This temperature profile and sensor sensitivity according to the distance heater-detector have been studied using numerical resolution of fluid dynamics equations with the commercial code CFD2000/STORM: it shows that the optimum distance between the temperature detectors and the heater is about 300 μm. A thermal accelerometer with 3 pairs of detectors placed at 100, 300 and 500 μm from the heater was manufactured using the techniques of micromachining silicon and experimental measurements have shown a good agreement with the numerical simulations: the experimental optimum distance between heater and detectors seems to be close to 400 μm and the differential temperature of detectors is about 3 °C/g for an operating heater power of 54 mW and an heater temperature rise AT of 238 °C. The electrical sensitivity is then 2.5 mV/g.

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hal-00327201 , version 1 (07-10-2008)

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Frédérick Mailly, Alexandre Martinez, Alain Giani, Frédérique Pascal-Delannoy, André Boyer. Design of a micromachined thermal accelerometer: thermal simulation and experimental results. Microelectronics Journal, 2003, 34 (4), pp.275-280. ⟨10.1016/S0026-2692(02)00194-5⟩. ⟨hal-00327201⟩
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