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Impact of Packaging on the Static Behavior of Piezoresitive Pressure Sensor Dedicated to Blast Wave Monitoring

Authors:
Bilel Achour
Lilian Marty
Kevin Sanchez
Samuel Charlot
Xavier Dollat
Benjamin Reig
Laurent Bouscayrol
Aurélie Lecestre
Anthony Coustou
André Ferrand
Hervé Aubert
Patrick Pons

Keywords: blast waves; pressure sensor; packaging; mechanical stress; Finite Element Method

Abstract:
The packaging is an important step, allowing to transform the transducer chip into a sensor. This step is necessary to perform the sensor characterization in a real environment, while minimizing the impact of the influence parameters on the sensor response. This study concerns the impact of the packaging on the static response of a miniature pressure sensor dedicated to the monitoring of blast waves. The transducer is based on 5 µm - thick rectangular (55 µm x 135 µm) silicon membrane and piezoresistive gauges. Pressure sensitivity measurements are performed using stressed and non-stressed sensor’s holder configurations. Measurements results indicate that the pressure sensitivity is doubled when the sensor’s holder is stressed. Finite Element Method simulations using COMSOL Multiphysics software show here that this result originates from the deformation of the sensor’s holder, which leads to the deflection of the thin silicon membrane.

Pages: 15 to 20

Copyright: Copyright (c) The Government of CNRS, 2022. Used by permission to IARIA.

Publication date: October 16, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-68558-006-3

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from October 16, 2022 to October 20, 2022