Patent ID: 8183748

Claim:
A method for measuring an angular velocity with an angular velocity sensor, the method comprising: preparing the angular velocity sensor, wherein the angular velocity sensor comprises: a substrate having a vibration part; and a piezoelectric thin film having a piezoelectric layer, the piezoelectric thin film further has a first electrode and a second electrode that sandwich the piezoelectric layer and is bonded to the vibration part, the piezoelectric layer is a (Bi, Na, Ba)TiO 3 film composed of a perovskite composite oxide (Bi, Na, Ba)TiO 3 , the (Bi, Na, Ba)TiO 3 film has (001) orientation and further contains Ag, the (Bi, Na, Ba)TiO 3 film has a mole ratio of Ag to Ti of at least 0.001 but not more than 0.01, and one electrode selected from the first electrode and the second electrode is composed of an electrode group comprising a drive electrode and a sense electrode; applying a driving voltage to the piezoelectric layer through the drive electrode and the other of the first electrode and the second electrode selected therefrom to oscillate the vibration part; and measuring, through the other electrode and the sense electrode, a deformation of the vibration part caused by an angular velocity applied to the vibration part that is oscillating to measure a value of the applied angular velocity.