A Spray Processed Harsh Environment Humidity Sensor for Detecting Relative Humidity in Microfluidic Gas Flows

Marcel Knoll; Christina Offenzeller; Bernhard Jakoby; Wolfgang Hilber

A Spray Processed Harsh Environment Humidity Sensor for Detecting Relative Humidity in Microfluidic Gas Flows

Marcel Knoll, Christina Offenzeller, Bernhard Jakoby, Wolfgang Hilber

Institute of Microelectronics and Microsensors

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Abstract

Four different custom made paints based on different compositions of carbon black (either pure or in a polyamide-imide matrix) were used to spray process a resistive type humidity sensor. The polyamide-imide composite resistors show good mechanical, chemical and high temperature stability up to 250 °C. Characterization of the resistors was done in a climatic chamber where the relative humidity was ramped from 28 to 90% and the temperature from 25 to 85 °C. The highest relative change in resistivity observed was 0.11 at a temperature of 85 °C. All tested samples showed an increase in humidity sensitivity with increasing temperature. Subsequently the temperature characteristic of the resistors was recorded up to 250 °C, where two of the tested paints showed a conversion from negative to positive temperature coefficient.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Microfluidics
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018

Fields of science

202021 Industrial electronics
202036 Sensor systems
202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering
202027 Mechatronics
202028 Microelectronics

JKU Focus areas

Mechatronics and Information Processing

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