Resonant Cantilever by [Pcflet01], CC BY-SA 3.0 MEMS have a wide range of applications including ink jet printers, accelerometers ... a cantilever is a rigid structure, often a beam or a plate ...
[Breaking Taps] has an investigation of a MEMS chip. MEMS is short for Micro ... Seeing a model of the accelerometer that is large enough to handle in your hands is very helpful in understanding ...