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Multi-functional (Temperature, Pressure, Humidity) Sensor by MEMS technology  

Kwon Sang-wook (MEMS Lab. Samsung Advanced Institute of Tech.)
Won Jong-Hwa (MEMS Lab. Samsung Advanced Institute of Tech.)
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In this paper, we present design and prototyping of a low-cost, integrated multi-functional micro health sensor chip that can be used or embedded in widely consumer devices, such as cell phone and PDA, for monitoring environmental condition including air pressure, temperature and humidity. This research's scope includes basic individual sensor study, architecture for integrating sensors on a chip, fabrication process compatibility and test/evaluation of prototype sensors. The results show that the integrated TPH sensor has good characteristics of ${\pm}\;1\%FS$ of linearity and hysteresis for pressure sensor and temperature sensor and of ${\pm}\;5\%FS$ of linearity and hysteresis But if we use 3rd order approximation for humidity sensor, full scale error becomes much smaller and this will be one of our future study.
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piezo-resistive; capacitive sensing; polyimide; health sensor;
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