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Alexander A. Trusov

Whitepapers

[W-02]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Overview of MEMS Gyroscopes: History, Principles of Operation, Types of Measurements," whitepaper, May 10, 2011. [PDF]
[W-01]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Allan Variance Analysis of Noise Modes in Gyroscopes," whitepaper, March 18, 2011. [PDF]

Journal Papers

[J-14]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Foucault Pendulum on a Chip: Rate Integrating Silicon MEMS Gyroscope," Accepted to Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, December 2011. [PDF]
[J-13]      Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "High-Range Angular Rate Sensor Based on Mechanical Frequency Modulation," Accepted to IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, December 2011. [PDF]
[J-12]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Low-Dissipation Silicon MEMS Tuning Fork Gyroscopes for Rate and Whole Angle Measurements," Accepted to IEEE Sensors Journal, November 2011. [PDF]
[J-11]      Sergei A. Zotov, Montromery C. Rivers, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Folded-MEMS-Pyramid Inertial Measurement Unit," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.11, No.11, pp.2780-2789, November 2011. [PDF]
[J-10]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Microscale Glass-Blown Three-Dimensional Spherical Shell Resonators," IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol.20, No.3, pp.691-701, June 2011. [PDF]
[J-09]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Micromachined Gyroscope Concept Allowing Interchangeable Operation in Both Robust and Precision Modes," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 165 (2011) 35–42. [PDF]
[J-08]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, Andrei M. Shkel, "Micromachined Rate Gyroscope Architecture with Ultra-High Quality Factor and Improved Mode Ordering", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 165 (2011) 26–34. [PDF]
[J-07]      Cenk Acar, Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, Lynn E. Costlow, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Environmentally Robust MEMS Vibratory Gyroscopes for Automotive Applications," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 1895, December 2009. [PDF]
[J-06]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Performance Characterization of a New Temperature-Robust Gain-Bandwidth Improved MEMS Gyroscope Operated in Air," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 155, Issue 1, Pages 16-22, October 2009. [PDF]
[J-05]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "A Substrate Energy Dissipation Mechanism in In-Phase and Anti-Phase Micromachined Z-Axis Vibratory Gyroscopes," IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 18, pp. 095016, 2008. [PDF]
[J-04]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Effects of Operational Frequency Scaling in Multi-Degree of Freedom MEMS Gyroscopes," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 8, No. 10, pp. 1672-1680, 2008. [PDF]
[J-03]      Alexander A. Trusov and Andrei M. Shkel, "A Novel Capacitive Detection Scheme with Inherent Self-Calibration," IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1324-1333, December 2007. [PDF]
[J-02]      Alexander A. Trusov and Andrei M. Shkel, "Capacitive Detection in Resonant MEMS with Arbitrary Amplitude of Motion," IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 1583-1592, July 2007. [PDF]
[J-01]      D. I. Bugrov and A. A. Trusov, "Modal Oscillations of a Single-Axis Vibrating Gyroscope," Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Ser. 1 Matematika Mekhanika, n 4, pp 64-67, 2004. [PDF] (in Russian)

Conference Papers

[C-36]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Thermal Calibration of Silicon MEMS Gyroscopes," Accepted to IMAPS 8th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, March 5 – 8, 2012. [PDF]
[C-35]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "North-Finding with 0.004 Radian Precision Using a Silicon MEMS  Quadruple Mass Gyroscope with Q-Factor of 1 Million," Accepted to IEEE MEMS 2012 Conference, Paris, France, Jan 28-Feb 2, 2012. [PDF]
[C-34]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Demonstration of a 4 milli-Radian Gyrocompassing Using a Silicon MEMS Rate Sensor with Q-Factor of 1 Million," Accepted to 2012 Joint Precision Azimuth Sensing Symposium (JPASS), Richmond, VA, February 27 - March 1, 2012. [PDF]
[C-33]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Silicon MEMS Gyroscope Demonstrating 3 Milliradian North Finding and 175 dB Dynamic Range," Accepted to IEEE/ION PLANS 2012. [PDF]
[C-32]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "MEMS Gyroscope with Interchangeable Modalities of Operation," Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) 2012. [PDF]
[C-31]      Alexander A. Trusov, Sergei A. Zotov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Electrostatic Regulation of Quality Factor in Tuning Fork MEMS," IEEE Sensors 2011 Conference, Limerick, Ireland, October 28 - 31, 2012. [PDF]
[C-30]      Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Experimental Demonstration of a Wide Dynamic Range Angular Rate Sensor Based on Frequency Modulation," IEEE Sensors 2011 Conference, Limerick, Ireland, October 28 - 31, 2012. [PDF]
[C-29]      Doruk Senkal, Igor P. Prikhodko, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Micromachined 3-D Glass-Blown Wineglass Structures for Vibratory MEMS Applications," Technologies or Future Micro-Nano Manufacturing, Napa, California, USA, August 8 - 10, 2011. [PDF]
[C-28]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Brenton R. Simon, Luis G. Andrade, Camille A. Ward, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Development of a Single-Chip MEMS Gyrocompass," Institute of Navigation Joint Navigation Conference (ION JNC), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, June 27-30, 2011. [PDF]
[C-27]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Sub-Degree-per-Hour Silicon MEMS Rate Sensor with 1 Million Q-Factor,"  Transducers 2011 Conference, Beijing, China, June 3-9, 2011. [PDF]
[C-26]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Design and Packaging of Ultra-High Q-Factor MEMS for Inertial Applications," IMAPS 7th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, March 8 – 10, 2011. [PDF]
[C-25]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Permanent Attachment of Silicon Structures via Joule Heat Induced Welding," IMAPS 7th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, March 8 – 10, 2011. [PDF]
[C-24]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Foucault Pendulum on a Chip: Angle Measuring Silicon MEMS Gyroscope," IEEE MEMS 2011, Conference, Cancun, Mexico, January 23 - 27, 2011. [PDF]
[C-23]      Sergei A. Zotov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Frequency Modulation Based Angular Rate System," IEEE MEMS 2011, Conference,  Cancun, Mexico, January 23 - 27, 2011. [PDF]
[C-22]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Adam R. Schofield, Andrei M. Shkel, "Ultra-High Q Silicon Gyroscopes with Interchangeable Rate and Whole Angle Modes of Operation," IEEE Sensors 2010 Conference, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, November 1-4, 2010. [PDF]
[C-21]      Sergei A. Zotov, Montgomery C. Rivers, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Chip-Scale IMU Using Folded-MEMS Approach," IEEE Sensors 2010 Conference, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, November 1-4, 2010. [PDF]
[C-20]      Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, " Mechanical Characterization of Micromachined Glass-Blown 3-D Spherical Shells," NSTI Nanotech 2010 Conference, Anaheim, California, USA, June 20-24, 2010. [PDF]
[C-19]      Sergei A. Zotov, Igor P.Prikhodko, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "3-D Micromachined Spherical Shell Resonators with Integrated Electromagnetic and Electrostatic Transducers," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop 2010, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, June 6-10, 2010. [PDF]
[C-18]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Vacuum Packaged Silicon MEMS Gyroscope with Q-Factor above 0.5 Million," IMAPS 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, March 8 – 11, 2010. [PDF]
[C-17]      Montgomery C. Rivers, Alexander A. Trusov, Sergei A. Zotov, Andrei M. Shkel,  "Micro IMU Utilizing Folded Cube Approach," IMAPS 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, March 8 – 11, 2010. [PDF]
[C-16]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Versatile Sub-mTorr Vacuum Packaging for the Experimental Study of Resonant MEMS," IEEE MEMS 2010 Conference, Hong Kong SAR, China, 24-28 January 2010. [PDF]
[C-15]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Gyroscope Architecture with Structurally Forced Anti-Phase Drive-Mode and Linearly Coupled Anti-Phase Sense-Mode,"  Transducers 2009 Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, June 21-25, 2009. [PDF]
[C-14]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Design Trade-Offs of Micromachined Gyroscope Concept Allowing Interchangeable Operation in Both Robust and Precision Modes," Transducers 2009 Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, June 21-25, 2009. [PDF]
[C-13]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Study of Substrate Energy Dissipation Mechanism in in-Phase and Anti-Phase Micromachined Vibratory Gyroscopes,"  IEEE Sensors 2008 Conference, Lecce, Italy, October 26-29, 2008. [PDF]
[C-12]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Micromachined Gyroscope Design Allowing for Both Robust Wide-Bandwidth and Precision Mode-Matched Operation," IEEE Sensors 2008 Conference, Lecce, Italy, October 26-29, 2008. [PDF]
[C-11]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "On Mechanisms of Energy Dissipation and Transfer in MEMS Vibratory Gyroscopes Operated in Vacuum," WCCM8/ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2008. [PDF]
[C-10]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "New Architectural Design of a Temperature Robust MEMS Gyroscope with Improved Gain-Bandwidth Characteristics," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop 2008, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, June 1-5, 2008. [PDF]
[C-09]      Alexander A. Trusov, Ilya Chepurko, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "A Standalone Programmable Signal Processing Unit for Versatile Characterization of MEMS Gyroscopes," IEEE Sensors 2007 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 28-31, 2007. [PDF]
[C-08]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Multi-Degree of Freedom Tuning Fork Gyroscope Demonstrating Shock Rejection," IEEE Sensors 2007 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 28-31, 2007. [PDF]
[C-07]      Alexander A. Trusov and Andrei M. Shkel, "The Effect of High Order Non-Linearities on Sub-Harmonic Excitation with Parallel Plate Capacitive Actuators," ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 4-7, 2007. [PDF]
[C-06]      Alexander A. Trusov and Andrei M. Shkel, "A Novel Capacitive Detection Scheme with Inherent Self-Calibration," ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 4-7, 2007. [PDF]
[C-05]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Structural Design Trade-offs for MEMS Vibratory Rate Gyroscopes with 2-DOF Sense Modes," ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 4-7, 2007. [PDF]
[C-04]      Alexander A. Trusov and Andrei M. Shkel, "Parallel Plate Capacitive Detection of Large Amplitude Motion in MEMS," International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS '07), pp. 1693-1696, Lyon, France, June 10-14, 2007. [PDF]
[C-03]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, Cenk Acar, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Anti-Phase Driven Rate Gyroscope with Multi-Degree of Freedom Sense Mode," International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS '07), pp. 1199-1202, Lyon, France, June 10-14, 2007. [PDF]
[C-02]      Alexander A. Trusov, Cenk Acar, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Comparative Analysis of Distributed Mass Micromachined Gyroscopes Fabricated in SCS-SOI and EFAB," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 6174 II, Smart Structures and Materials 2006 - Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, p 61742A, 2006. [PDF]
[C-01]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Feasibility Analysis of Vibratory Gyroscope in Vestibular Prosthesis Prototype," XXVI Conference of the Young Scientists at Moscow State University, Russia, April 2004. [PDF] (in Russian)

Invited Talks and Presentations

[I-14]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Drifts in Coriolis Gyroscopes and Approaches to C-SCAN," invited talk, DARPA workshop "Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator (C-SCAN)," Newport Beach, CA, September 28-29, 2011.
[I-13]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Micromachined Spherical Resonators," invited talk, DARPA uPNT PI meeting, Huntsville, AL, April 20-21, 2011.
[I-12]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Foucault Pendulum on a Chip: Angle Measuring Silicon MEMS Gyroscope," invited talk, Orange County IEEE Solid State Circuits Society meeting, Irvine, CA, USA, February 26, 2011.
[I-11]      Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, Sergei A. Zotov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Dynamically Balanced Silicon MEMS Gyroscopes with Q=0.5 Million for Rate & Whole Angle Operation (Foucault Pendulum on a Chip)," invited talk, 2010 Joint Precision Azimuth Sensing Symposium (JPASS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 2-4, 2010.
[I-10]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, "Self-Calibration of Scale Factor in Vibratory Gyroscopes Using the Inherent Nonlinearity of Capacitive Detection," invited talk, DARPA workshop "Primary and Secondary Calibration on Active Layer (PASCAL)," Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 29-30, 2010.
[I-09]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Application Driven Development of MEMS Gyroscopes," invited presentation, Freescale Semiconductor, Tempe, AZ, February 2, 2010.
[I-08]      Alexander A. Trusov, Montgomery C. Rivers, "Micro IMU Utilizing a Folded MEMS Approach," invited talk, DARPA workshop "Deep Integration of Timing and Inertial Measurement Units (TIMUs)," Park City, Utah, February 2-3, 2010.
[I-07]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Miniature 3-D Shells for Micromachined Rate Integrating Gyroscopes," invited talk, DARPA workshop "Microscale Rate Integrating Gyroscopes: Challenges and Opportunities," Dana Point, California, USA, October 7-9, 2009.
[I-06]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Ultra-Sensitive Silicon MEMS Gyroscopes with Shock Rejection," invited talk, 2009 Joint Precision Azimuth Sensing Symposium (JPASS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 3-7, 2009.
[I-05]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Study of Fundamental Limits and Favorable Effects of Scaling to Enable Ultra-High Resolution MEMS Vibratory Gyroscopes for 1 mil Azimuth Detection," invited talk, 2009 Joint Precision Azimuth Sensing Symposium (JPASS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 3-7, 2009.
[I-04]      Montgomery C. Rivers, Alexander A. Trusov, Sergei A. Zotov, Marc Salleras, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Micro IMU Utilizing Folded Cube Approach," poster presentation, DARPA MTO MEMS Meeting, Sunriver, Oregon, USA, July 7-10, 2009.
[I-03]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Addressing Drifts in Capacitive Vibratory MEMS Gyroscopes," invited presentation, InvenSense, Sunnyvale, CA, August 1, 2008.
[I-02]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Bias Drift in MEMS Gyroscopes," invited talk, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar, University of California, Irvine, USA, June 6, 2007.
[I-01]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Characterization of Capacitive Resonant Microstructures Fabricated in EFAB Process," invited talk, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar, University of California, Irvine, USA, October 19, 2005.

Patent Disclosures

[P-07]     Alexander A. Trusov, Sergei A. Zotov, Andrei M. Shkel, "High Range Digital Angular Rate Sensor Based on Frequency Modulation," US Patent pending, UC Case No 2011-199. [OTA]
[P-06]     Montgomery C. Rivers, Sergei A. Zotov, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Three Dimensional Folded MEMS Technology for Multi-Axis Sensor Systems," US Patent pending, UC Case No 2010-527. [OTA]
[P-05]     Andrei M. Shkel, Alexander A. Trusov, Igor P. Prikhodko, and Sergei A. Zotov, "Three-Dimensional Wafer-Scale Batch-Micromachined Angle/Angular Rate Microshell Resonator Gyroscope," US Patent pending, UC Case No 2010-231. [OTA]
[P-04]     Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Micromachined Tuning Fork Gyroscopes with Ultra-High Sensitivity and Shock Rejection," US Patent pending, UC Case No 2009-748, US Patent Application 20100313657. [OTA]
[P-03]      Adam R. Schofield, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Micromachined Gyroscopes with 2-DOF Sense Modes Allowing Interchangeable Robust and Precision Operation," US Patent pending, UC Case No 2009-547. [OTA]
[P-02]      Alexander A. Trusov, Adam R. Schofield, and Andrei M. Shkel, "Temperature-Robust MEMS Gyroscope with 2-DOF Sense-Mode Addressing the Tradeoff between Bandwidth and Gain," US Patent pending, UC Case No 2008-503, US Patent Application 20100319451. [OTA]
[P-01]      Alexander A. Trusov and Andrei M. Shkel, "Apparatus and method using capacitive detection with inherent self-calibration," US Patent 8094841. [OTA]

Dissertations and Thesis

[D-02]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Investigation of Factors Affecting Bias Stability and Scale Factor Drifts in Coriolis Vibratory MEMS Gyroscopes," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2009. Main text [PDF], appendices [PDF].
[D-01]      Alexander A. Trusov, "Nonlinear Effects in Control of Capacitive Resonant Microstructures," M.S. Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2006. [PDF]

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