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Surface micromachined piezoresistive pressure sensor has been designed, modeled, and fabricated. The optimal position, orientation, and length of effective resistors on circular and square plate have been found. The sensitivity of 0.15 mV/V/psi could be achieved by the optimization design. The linearity error of pressure sensor is dominated by the large deflection of plates. The strain under large deflection of circular and square plates could be solved by the methods of S. P. Timoshenko and A. Foppl respectively. Experimental measurements showed consistent agreement. Because the solutions are analytic, they could be used in the linearity compensation circuitry. The output voltage of pressure sensor and temperature relationships have been predicted by Y. Kanda's theory and verified by experimental measurements. It could be used in the temperature compensation circuitry. We conquer some difficulties to fabricate surface micromachined piezoresistive pressure sensor in the Semi Conductor Research Center, NCTU. It shows the possibility of fabricating surface micromachined pressure sensor in Taiwan.
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