{"title":"A combined MEMS thermal vacuum sensor with a wide pressure range","authors":"Chuang Yuan, Jianyu Fu, Fan Qu, Qiong Zhou","doi":"10.1088/1361-6439/ad104d","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"MEMS thermal vacuum sensors have been widely applied in many academic and industry fields, and pressure range is a key performance of MEMS thermal vacuum sensors. To extend the pressure range, a combined MEMS thermal vacuum sensor that consists of two diode-type MEMS thermal vacuum sensors in series is proposed in this work. The two diode-type sensors are designed to have different areas of sensitive region and distances between sensitive region and heat sink, and their responses to the pressure are from 3.0 × 10<sup>−3</sup> to 3 × 10<sup>4</sup> Pa and from 1.7 × 10<sup>−2</sup> to 4.4 × 10<sup>5</sup> Pa, respectively. By series-connecting them, the combined sensor achieves a pressure range of 1.3 × 10<sup>−3</sup> to 6.9 × 10<sup>5</sup> Pa without any additional control circuit. In addition, it possesses a relatively small size of 400 × 300 <italic toggle=\"yes\">μ</italic>m<sup>2</sup>. These indicate that the combined MEMS thermal vacuum sensor has the characteristics of wide pressure range, high sensitivity and small size.","PeriodicalId":16346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6439/ad104d","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
MEMS thermal vacuum sensors have been widely applied in many academic and industry fields, and pressure range is a key performance of MEMS thermal vacuum sensors. To extend the pressure range, a combined MEMS thermal vacuum sensor that consists of two diode-type MEMS thermal vacuum sensors in series is proposed in this work. The two diode-type sensors are designed to have different areas of sensitive region and distances between sensitive region and heat sink, and their responses to the pressure are from 3.0 × 10−3 to 3 × 104 Pa and from 1.7 × 10−2 to 4.4 × 105 Pa, respectively. By series-connecting them, the combined sensor achieves a pressure range of 1.3 × 10−3 to 6.9 × 105 Pa without any additional control circuit. In addition, it possesses a relatively small size of 400 × 300 μm2. These indicate that the combined MEMS thermal vacuum sensor has the characteristics of wide pressure range, high sensitivity and small size.
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Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM) primarily covers experimental work, however relevant modelling papers are considered where supported by experimental data.
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