RESEARCH ARTICLE

Piezoresistive pressure sensor with high sensitivity for medical application using peninsula-island structure

  • Tingzhong XU 1,2 ,
  • Hongyan WANG , 3 ,
  • Yong XIA 1 ,
  • Zhiming ZHAO 1 ,
  • Mimi HUANG 1 ,
  • Jiuhong WANG 1 ,
  • Libo ZHAO 1 ,
  • Yulong ZHAO 1 ,
  • Zhuangde JIANG 1
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, International Joint Laboratory for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement Technologies, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • 2. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
  • 3. Shaanxi Institute of Metrology Science, Xi’an 710065, China

Received date: 03 Jan 2017

Accepted date: 01 Mar 2017

Published date: 31 Oct 2017

Copyright

2017 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

A novel micro-electromechanical systems piezoresistive pressure sensor with a diagonally positioned peninsula-island structure has high sensitivity for ultra-low-pressure measurement. The pressure sensor was designed with a working range of 0–500 Pa and had a high sensitivity of 0.06 mV·V−1·Pa−1. The trade-off between high sensitivity and linearity was alleviated. Moreover, the influence of the installation angle on the sensing chip output was analyzed, and an application experiment of the sensor was conducted using the built pipettor test platform. Findings indicated that the proposed pressure sensor had sufficient resolution ability and accuracy to detect the pressure variation in the pipettor chamber. Therefore, the proposed pressure sensor has strong potential for medical equipment application.

Cite this article

Tingzhong XU , Hongyan WANG , Yong XIA , Zhiming ZHAO , Mimi HUANG , Jiuhong WANG , Libo ZHAO , Yulong ZHAO , Zhuangde JIANG . Piezoresistive pressure sensor with high sensitivity for medical application using peninsula-island structure[J]. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2017 , 12(4) : 546 -553 . DOI: 10.1007/s11465-017-0447-9

Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51375378, 91323303, and 51421004), the National Key Research & Development (R&D) plan (Grant No. 2016YFB1200103-04), the 973 Program (Grant No. 2015CB057402), and the 111 Program (Grant No. B12016).
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