The paper “Thermal Calibration of Silicon MEMS Gyroscopes” coauthored by I.P. Prikhodko, S.A. Zotov, A.A. Trusov, and A.M. Shkel has received the first place in best paper competition at the 8th International IMAPS DPC 2012 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona…Continue Reading IMAPS DPC 2012
Hilton Head 2012
Two papers have been accepted to the Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop 2012: “Titania Silicate / Fused Quartz Glassblowing for 3-D Fabrication of Low Internal Loss Wineglass Micro-structures” by Doruk Senkal, Christopher R. Raum, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, and “Achieving Long-Term Bias Stability in High-Q Inertial MEMS by Temperature Self-Sensing with a 0.5 Millicelcius Precision” by Igor…Continue Reading Hilton Head 2012
JMEMS Letters
One paper has been accepted for JMEMS Letters: “3-D Spherical Shell Resonator Gyroscope Fabricated Using Wafer-Scale Glassblowing”…Continue Reading JMEMS Letters
US Patent # 8,113,050 Issued
U.S. Patent 8,113,050 entitled ” Robust six degree-of-freedom micromachined gyroscope with anti-phase drive scheme and method of operation of the same,” by Cenk Acar, Andrei Shkel, Adam Schofield, Lynn Costlow, Asad Madni has been awarded. [PDF]…Continue Reading US Patent # 8,113,050 Issued
U.S. Patent # 8,094,841 Issued
U.S. Patent 8,094,841 entitled “Apparatus and method using capacitive detection with inherent self-calibration,” by Alexander A. Trusov and Shkel M. Andrei has been awarded. [PDF]…Continue Reading U.S. Patent # 8,094,841 Issued