Proceedings (Aug 2017)

Fabrication of ZnO Nanorods on MEMS Piezoresistive Silicon Microcantilevers for Environmental Monitoring

  • Jiushuai Xu,
  • Maik Bertke,
  • Alaaeldin Gad,
  • Feng Yu,
  • Gerry Hamdana,
  • Andrey Bakin,
  • Erwin Peiner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1040290
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 4
p. 290

Abstract

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In this study, a ZnO nanorods (NRs) patterned MEMS piezoresistive silicon micro-cantilever was fabricated as environmental monitor. The fabrication starts from bulk silicon, utilizing photolithography, diffusion, inductively coupled plasma (ICP) cryogenic dry etching, Zinc DC-sputtering, and chemical bath deposition (CBD) etc. This sensor shows a humidity sensitivity value of 6.35 ± 0.27 ppm/RH% at 25 °C in the range from 30% RH to 80% RH.

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