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Micro-Pirani Pressure Sensor With Operation Range Beyond Atmospheric Pressure Based on Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Electron Device Letters IEEE Electron Device Lett. Electron Device Letters, IEEE. 45(5):901-904 May, 2024
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Silicon
Resistance
Electrical resistance measurement
Wires
Pressure measurement
Semiconductor device measurement
Substrates
Carbon nanotubes
Pirani effect
pressure sensor
vacuum
Language
ISSN
0741-3106
1558-0563
Abstract
In this work, we report a micro-Pirani vacuum sensor based on super-aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) films. The devices are batch fabricated on silicon wafers utilizing simple microfabrication process, demonstrating much higher capability of large-scale and efficient parallel manufacturing compared with the previous reported CNT Pirani sensors. Additionally, owing to the nanoscale diameter and excellent electrical and physical properties of CNT films, the upper pressure operating range is pushed up to several atmospheres ( $\approx 2.5\times 10^{5}$ Pa). And the devices exhibit good performance on reproducibility (standard deviation of < 0.32%) and relatively high accuracy (relative error of 0.39% at $2\times 10^{4}$ Pa). All these results demonstrate the feasibility of our device as pressure sensors in future.