A button device includes a MEMS sensor having a MEMS strain detection structure and a deformable substrate configured to undergo deformation under the action of an external force. The MEMS strain detection structure includes a mobile element carried by the deformable substrate via at least a first and a second anchorage, the latter fixed with respect to the deformable substrate and configured to displace and generate a deformation force on the mobile element in the presence of the external force; and stator elements capacitively coupled to the mobile element. The deformation of the mobile element causes a capacitance variation between the mobile element and the stator elements. Furthermore, the MEMS sensor is configured to generate detection signals correlated to the capacitance variation.

A micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) driving arrangement for an electronic device, the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) driving arrangement including a driven wheel; a driving actuation assembly for causing rotation of the driven wheel; an indicator assembly including an indicator; and a force absorbing assembly coupled intermediate the indicator assembly and the driven wheel; whereby a force acting upon the indicator assembly is absorbed by the force absorbing assembly so as to inhibit rotation of the driven wheel relative to the driving actuation assembly.

A resonant structure comprising at least two coaxial rings, wherein adjacent coaxial rings have adjacent peripheries and are attached together by a plurality of connection structures regularly arranged along said adjacent peripheries; and wherein a first ring has a first ring portion with a first radial thickness and a second ring, portion, in a vicinity of a first connection structure, with a second radial thickness smaller than said first radial thickness.

A micro-electro-mechanical device, wherein a platform is formed in a top substrate and is configured to turn through a rotation angle. The platform has a slit and faces a cavity. A plurality of integrated photodetectors is formed in a bottom substrate so as to detect the light through the slit and generate signals correlated to the light through the slit. The area of the slit varies with the rotation angle of the platform and causes diffraction, more or less marked as a function of the angle. The difference between the signals of two photodetectors arranged at different positions with respect to the slit yields the angle.

The invention relates to a method for controlling a microelectromechanical system by means of an electrical control signal alternating between a maximum voltage value (Vmax) and a minimum voltage value (Vmin), wherein, during the transition from the maximum voltage value (Vmax) to the minimum voltage value (Vmin), the value of the voltage of the electrical control signal monotonously decreases from the maximum voltage value (Vmax) to the minimum voltage value (Vmin), which signal comprising, in sequential order: a first slope between the maximum voltage value (Vmax) and a first voltage threshold value (Vend), a second slope, having a lower absolute value than the first slope, between the first voltage threshold value (Vend) and a second voltage threshold value (Vstart), and a third slope, having a higher absolute value than the second slope, between the second voltage threshold value (Vstart) and the minimum voltage value (Vmin).

A micro-electro-mechanical device, wherein a platform is formed in a top substrate and is configured to turn through a rotation angle. The platform has a slit and faces a cavity. A plurality of integrated photodetectors is formed in a bottom substrate so as to detect the light through the slit and generate signals correlated to the light through the slit. The area of the slit varies with the rotation angle of the platform and causes diffraction, more or less marked as a function of the angle. The difference between the signals of two photodetectors arranged at different positions with respect to the slit yields the angle.

Compositions and methods related to multiaxially straining defect doped materials as well as their use in electrical circuits are generally described.

To provide a physical quantity sensor having excellent reliability by reducing the influence of a force applied from the outside. Disclosed is a physical quantity sensor, which has a weight or a movable electrode formed on a device substrate, and an outer peripheral section that is disposed to surround the weight or the movable electrode, said weight or movable electrode being displaceable in the rotation direction in a plane. When the weight or the movable electrode is displaced in the rotation direction in the plane, the physical quantity sensor is provided with a rotation space at the outer peripheral section of an end portion of the weight or the movable electrode, said end portion being in the direction viewed from the center position of the weight or the movable electrode.

According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a first beam, a first opposing beam, a support portion, a first linking portion, and a first connecting portion. The first beam includes a first portion and a first other portion. A direction from the first portion to the first other portion is along a first direction. A second direction from the first opposing beam to the first beam crosses the first direction. The first opposing beam includes a first opposing portion and a first other opposing portion. The first linking portion is connected to the first other portion and the first other opposing portion. The first connecting portion is connected to the first linking portion. A first connecting portion width along the second direction of the first connecting portion is narrower than a first linking portion width along the second direction of the first linking portion.

Provided is an acceleration sensor, including a base; a first anchor point fixed to a middle part of the base; an inner side mass unit surrounding an outer side of the first anchor point, an outer side mass unit surrounding an outer side of the inner side mass unit, a first seesaw unit and a second seesaw unit arranged opposite to each other to define an annular structure surrounding an outer side of the outer side mass unit, a first acceleration detection unit and a second acceleration detection unit. Part of the first acceleration detection unit is arranged at the annular structure to detect acceleration in an out-of-plane Z-axis direction, the second acceleration detection unit is arranged at the outer side mass unit to detect acceleration in an in-plane X-axis direction and in an in-plane Y-axis direction. A design thereof is reasonable and the sensitivity is high.