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    Area of Science:

    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Optical Engineering
    • Materials Science

    Background:

    • Grating-based micromechanical accelerometers are crucial for precise motion detection.
    • Non-parallelism errors between grating and mirror degrade accelerometer performance.
    • Residual stress and fabrication issues contribute to these errors.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To enhance optical sensitivity in micromechanical accelerometers.
    • To investigate and mitigate non-parallelism errors.
    • To improve acceleration measurement accuracy and bias stability.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed an equivalent optical model based on multi-slit Fraunhofer diffraction theory.
    • Implemented an integrated fabrication flow using quartz and silicon.
    • Utilized an interferometric beam detecting setup for experimental characterization.

    Main Results:

    • Reduced non-parallelism error between the grating and reflected mirror.
    • Achieved improved parallelism through optimized fabrication.
    • Demonstrated enhanced acceleration measurement with improved scale factor and decreased noise floor.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed methods effectively enhance optical sensitivity in grating-based accelerometers.
    • Bias stability was significantly improved from 2 mg to 0.35 mg (20s interval).
    • The integrated fabrication process enables high-performance, hermetically packaged accelerometers.