A micro-electro-mechanical accelerometer based on gallium nitride on silicon

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Morelle, C. | Théron, D. | Roch-Jeune, I. | Tilmant, Pascal | Okada, Etienne | Vaurette, F. | Grimbert, Bertrand | Derluyn, Joff | Degroote, Stefan | Germain, Marianne | Faucher, M.

Edité par HAL CCSD ; American Institute of Physics

International audience. We report on an accelerometer micro-sensor based on epitaxial gallium nitride and silicon. The device is a vibrating beam accelerometer fabricated with a micro-electro-mechanical-system technology starting from an AlGaN/GaN heterostructure grown on silicon. The vibrating GaN beam has integrated high electron mobility transducers, whereas a high aspect ratio proof mass is engineered in the silicon substrate. The sensor response was investigated for several modes and features a scale factor up to 160 Hz/g, with unconventional dependence vs the mode number. To account for this, we propose an analytical model of the accelerometer scale factor that takes into account the built-in stress during epitaxy. This proof-of-concept device opens perspectives for inertial sensors taking advantage of GaN properties.

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