Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) Coriolis vibratory ring gyroscope, which utilizes
Byran effect to detect rotation, is regarded as a two-dimensional derivative of vibrating shell …

Presents the mathematical framework, technical language, and control systems know-how
needed to design, develop, and instrument micro-scale whole-angle gyroscopes This …

For applications requiring high performance angular rate measurements it is important to be
able to design MEMS rate sensors with high quality factors (Q). This paper considers ring …

The cylindrical resonator is the core component of cylindrical resonator gyroscopes (CRGs).
The quality factor (Q factor) of the resonator is one crucial parameter that determines the …

This paper presents an analytical study on thermoelastic damping (TED) in the contour-
mode vibrations of micro-and nano-electromechanical circular thin-plate resonators. Instead …

In this article, three test motors are fabricated with different iron materials, conventional steel,
high silicon steel, and amorphous iron. Among the three materials, the high silicon steel has …

Thermoelastic dissipation (TED) is a fundamental energy loss process, which bears concern
in all microelectromechanical resonators. High aspect ratio (R/h) 3-D micro-hemispherical …

This work presents the design, analysis, simulation and experiment of a novel ring vibratory
gyroscope based on piezoelectric effect. The gyroscope has a simple millimeter-scale …

Accurate modeling of thermoelastic damping (TED) is a significant and challenging task in
the design of multilayer micro-resonator devices. Several analytical models were proposed …

In this paper, a thermal-energy method is presented for calculating thermoelastic damping in
micromechanical resonators. In this method, thermoelastic damping is interpreted as the …