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. 2023 Mar 6;9:23. doi: 10.1038/s41378-023-00484-5

Table 4.

Summary of reported piezoelectric MEMS accelerometers in recent years

Research group Material Volume* Noise density Charge sensitivity Voltage sensitivity Natural frequency Beam type
\ \ mm3 μg/Hz pC/g mV/g \ \
This work PZT 20.97 5.6 @20Hz 22.74 4.96*** 867.4 Hz Cantilever
Trivedi et al.24 PZT 0.4 5800 @N/A N/A 8.12 9.62 kHz Four-symmetric
Hu et al.43 AlN 14.25 N/A 6.1*** 7.95 1.29 kHz Cantilever
Chen et al.38 AlN 32.4** N/A N/A 1.49 7.2 kHz Ring
Tsai et al.39 PZT 33.92 N/A N/A 2.21 6.5 kHz Ring
Gesing et al.23 AlN 1.6 510 @100Hz 0.0981 N/A 19.1 kHz Four-symmetric
Shen et al.44 PLZT 2.205** N/A 0.04 N/A 7.68 kHz Four-symmetric
Saayujya et al.22 ZnO 1 N/A N/A 1.69 2.19 kHz Cantilever
Hewa-Kasakarage et al.17 Beam 1 PZT 1.417** N/A 5.1 3.26 363.95 Hz Cantilever
Beam 3 PZT 6.175** 1.74 @20Hz 50 15.67*** 67.37 Hz Cantilever
Beam A5 PZT 0.975** 12.7@100Hz 3.43*** 1 482.3 Hz Cantilever

*Volume of the sensing element of the piezoelectric accelerometer

**Obtained by estimation according to the given picture of the real fabricated sensor in the corresponding paper

***Obtained using voltage/charge sensitivity multiplying/divided by the given capacitance of the piezoelectric sensing material