An Optical MEMS Acoustic Sensor Based on Grating Interferometer

Sensors

Xingdong Liang¹  Dipeng Ren²  Ran Gao²  Gaomi Wu²  Mengying Zhang²  Zhi-Mei Qi² 

[1] Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging Laboratory, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;

关键词: MEMS;    acoustic sensors;    grating;    interferometry;    stability;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s19071503

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Acoustic detection is of great significance because of its wide applications. This paper reports a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) acoustic sensor based on grating interferometer. In the MEMS structure, a diaphragm and a micro-grating made up the interference cavity. A short-cavity structure was designed and fabricated to reduce the impact of temperature on the cavity length in order to improve its stability against environment temperature variations. Besides this, through holes were designed in the substrate of the grating to reduce the air damping of the short-cavity structure. A silicon diaphragm with a 16.919 µm deep cavity and 2.4 µm period grating were fabricated by an improved MEMS process. The fabricated sensor chip was packaged on a conditioning circuit with a laser diode and a photodetector for acoustic detection. The output voltage signal in response to an acoustic wave is of high quality. The sensitivity of the acoustic sensor is up to −15.14 dB re 1 V/Pa @ 1 kHz. The output signal of the high-stability acoustic sensor almost unchanged as the environment temperature ranged from 5 °C to 55 °C.

【 授权许可】

Unknown