Mechanical design of a single-axis monolithic accelerometer for advanced seismic attenuation systems

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 556, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 616-623

  Bertolini, Alessandro ^a,b,e   DeSalvo, Riccardo ^b   Fidecaro, Francesco ^a   Francesconi, Mario ^a   Marka, Szabolcs ^c   Sannibale, Virginio ^b   Simonetti, Duccio ^a   Takamori, Akiteru ^b,d   Tariq, Hareem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Capacitance sensor; Flexure

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CAPACITANCE; CRYOGENICS; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC WAVES; SENSORS;

CAPACITANCE SENSORS; CRYOGENIC OPERATION; FLEXURE; FOLDED-PENDULUM (FP);

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 29444452880     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.10.117     Document Type: Article

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