A Fully 3D Printed Accelerometer for Movement Monitoring Applications

Guandong Liu; Changhai Wang; Ruiqi Luo; Zhili Jia; Maojing Hou; Wei Ma

doi:10.1109/NEMS54180.2022.9791199

A Fully 3D Printed Accelerometer for Movement Monitoring Applications

Guandong Liu, Changhai Wang, Ruiqi Luo, Zhili Jia, Maojing Hou, Wei Ma^*

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This paper presents a fully 3D printed accelerometer. With a multi-extruder 3D printer, the conductive PLA (polylactic acid) filament material was selectively printed on the normal PLA substrates to form the electrodes for the device. Therefore, both the conductive electrodes and the nonconductive mechanical structures of the capacitive accelerometer can be fully 3D printed within one hour without using any additional patterning process and metallization process. Compared with the traditional silicon- based fabrication methods, this approach is much faster and can fulfill the increasing demands of personalized customization. The fully 3D printed accelerometer had a sensitivity of 0.48 V/g, a nonlinearity error of 1.16% and exhibited good dynamic characteristics, which indicate the 3D printed device has a potential to be applied in movement monitoring in real time. The work demonstrates a fast and low-cost method for MEMS devices fabrication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	17th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2022
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	74-77
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665483018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS54180.2022.9791199
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2022
Event	17th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2022 - Virtual, Online, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 14 Apr 2022 → 17 Apr 2022

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Conference	17th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2022
Abbreviated title	NEMS 2022
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/04/22 → 17/04/22

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Biotechnology
Molecular Biology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Instrumentation

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Liu, G, Wang, C, Luo, R, Jia, Z, Hou, M & Ma, W 2022, A Fully 3D Printed Accelerometer for Movement Monitoring Applications. in 17th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2022. IEEE, pp. 74-77, 17th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2022, Virtual, Online, Taiwan, Province of China, 14/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS54180.2022.9791199

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