Research status and development trend of MEMS switches: A review

T Cao, T Hu, Y Zhao - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
MEMS switch is a movable device manufactured by means of semiconductor technology,
possessing many incomparable advantages such as a small volume, low power …

Research progress of MEMS inertial switches

M Liu, X Wu, Y Niu, H Yang, Y Zhu, W Wang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a typical type of MEMS acceleration sensor, the inertial switch can alter its on-off state
while the environmental accelerations satisfy threshold value. An exhaustive summary of the …

Design, simulation, and testing of a tunable MEMS multi-threshold inertial switch

Q Xu, RT Rocha, Y Algoos, E Feron… - Microsystems & …, 2024 - nature.com
This paper presents a tunable multi-threshold micro-electromechanical inertial switch with
adjustable threshold capability. The demonstrated device combines the advantages of …

A zero-power sensing MEMS shock sensor with a latch-reset mechanism for multi-threshold events monitoring

RR Reddy, K Komeda, Y Okamoto… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design, modeling, fabrication, and testing of a MEMS passive shock
sensor to record multiple threshold events with robust latching mechanism using mass …

Multi-threshold inertial switch for quantitative acceleration measurements

Q Xu, F Khan, MI Younis - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a multi-threshold inertial switch demonstrated experimentally and
through simulation. A laterally-driven multi-threshold inertial switch based on SOIMUMPs …

Micromachined threshold inertial switches: A review

Q Xu, MI Younis - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a review of the recent advances on micromachined inertial
switches/triggers. The review focuses on their advantages and disadvantages, sensitive …

Multi-threshold inertial switch with acceleration direction detection capability

Q Xu, L Wang, MI Younis - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an inertial switch with three threshold levels, which can provide
quantitative acceleration measurements and detect the acceleration direction in the x–y …

Design, modeling, and testing of a bidirectional multi-threshold MEMS inertial switch

AH Niyazi, Q Xu, F Khan, MI Younis - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a MEMS inertial switch with multiple, non-latching acceleration thresholds in two
directions, that consumes no power in its inactive state. The design implements a …

A review of MEMS inertial switches

Y Cao, Z ** - Microsystem technologies, 2019 - Springer
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inertial switch is both a sensor and an actuator by
only capturing a threshold and a close/open timestamp, yielding unique benefits like lower …

A low-g omnidirectional MEMS inertial switch with load direction identification

L Du, Y Yu, B Yuan, B Guo, C Wang, C Du… - Microelectronic …, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to solve the problem that the low-g omnidirectional MEMS inertial switches cannot
recognize the load direction, a nickel omnidirectional MEMS inertial switch with identifiable …