| Title |
The Design and fabrication of Capacitive Humidity Sensor Having Interdigital Electrodes and Its Signal Processing Circuit |
| Authors |
강정호(Kang, Jeong-Ho) ; 이재용(Lee, Jae-Yong) ; 김우현(Kim, Woo-Hyun) |
| Keywords |
Capacitive ; Interdigital ; Humidity Sensor ; signal Processing ; ASIC |
| Abstract |
For the purpose of developing capacitive humidity sensor having interdigital electrodes, interdigital electrode was modeled and simulated to obtain capacitance and sensitivity as a function of geometric parameters like the structural gap and thickness. For the development of ASIC, switched capacitor signal processing circuits for capacitive humidity sensor were designed and simulated by Cadence using 0.25μm CMOS process parameters. The signal processing circuits are composed of amplifier for voltage gain control, and clock generator for sensor driving and switch control. The characteristics of the fabricated sensors are; 1) sensitivity is 9fF/%R.H., 2) temperature coefficient of offset(TCO) is 0.4%R.H./^{circ}C, 3) nonlinearity is 1.2%FS, 4) hysteresis is 1.5%FS in humidity range of 3%R.H.{sim}98%R.H.. The response time is 50 seconds in adsorption and 70 seconds in desorption. Fabricated process used in this capacitive humidity sensor having interdigital electrode are just as similar as conventional IC process technology. Therefore this can be easily mass produced with low cost, simple circuit and utilized in many applications for both industrial and environmental measurement and control system, such as monitoring system of environment, automobile, displayer, IC process room, and laboratory etc. |