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Doctoral Student Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: sarah.nitzan AT gmail.com ResearchIntegrated Microgyroscopes with Improved Scale-Factor and Bias Stability |
Background
Sarah studied General Engineering at Harvey Mudd College, and received her B.S. in 2010. She then studied with Professor Bahram Ravani at U.C. Davis, receiving her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2012. She joined the MEMS lab in 2012, and is currently pursuing a Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering under Professor Horsley.
Area of interest
MEMS Inertial Sensors
Controls
Publications
Journals
- S. H. Nitzan, V. Zega, M. Li, C. H. Ahn, A. Corigliano, T. W. Kenny, and D. A. Horsley, “Self-induced parametric amplification arising from nonlinear elastic coupling in a micromechanical resonating disk gyroscope,” Sci. Rep., vol. 5, Mar. 2015.
doi: 10.1038/srep09036 - Mo Li; Nitzan, S.; Horsley, D.A., “Frequency-Modulated Lorentz Force Magnetometer With Enhanced Sensitivity via Mechanical Amplification,” Electron Device Letters, IEEE , vol.36, no.1, pp.62,64, Jan. 2015
doi: 10.1109/LED.2014.2372617 - Tsanh-Hung Su; Nitzan, S.H.; Taheri-Tehrani, P.; Kline, M.H.; Boser, B.E.; Horsley, D.A., “Silicon MEMS Disk Resonator Gyroscope With an Integrated CMOS Analog Front-End,” Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.14, no.10, pp.3426,3432, Oct. 2014
doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2335735
Conferences
- Nitzan, S.; Su, T.-H.; Ahn, C.; Ng, E.; Hong, V.; Yang, Y.; Kenny, T.; Horsley, D.A, “Impact of gyroscope operation above the critical bifurcation threshold on scale factor and bias instability,” Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2014 IEEE 27th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.749,752, 26-30 Jan. 2014
doi: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2014.6765749 - Su, T.-H.; Nitzan, S.; Taheri-Tehrani, P.; Kline, M.; Boser, B.; Horsley, D.A, “MEMS disk resonator gyroscope with integrated analog front-end,” SENSORS, 2013 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,4, 3-6 Nov. 2013
doi: 10.1109/ICSENS.2013.6688164 - Nitzan, S.; Ahn, C.H.; Su, T.-H.; Li, M.; Ng, E.J.; Wang, S.; Yang, Z.M.; O’Brien, G.; Boser, B.E.; Kenny, T.W.; Horsley, D.A, “Epitaxially-encapsulated polysilicon disk resonator gyroscope,” Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2013 IEEE 26th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.625,628, 20-24 Jan. 2013
doi: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474319