In-Plane and Out-of-Plane MEMS Piezoresistive Cantilever Sensors for Nanoparticle Mass Detection

Sensors

Erik Uhde¹  Ina Kirsch¹  ChristianH. Schwalb²  Maik Bertke³  Andi Setiono³  Jiushuai Xu³  WilsonOmbati Nyang’au³  HutomoSuryo Wasisto³  Erwin Peiner³  Michael Fahrbach³  Alexander Deutschinger⁴  ErnestJ. Fantner⁴ 

[1] Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut (WKI), 38108 Braunschweig, Germany;GETec Microscopy GmbH, 1220 Vienna, Austria;Institute of Semiconductor Technology (IHT) and Laboratory of Emerging Nanometrology (LENA), Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany;SCL-Sensor.Tech. Fabrication GmbH, 1220 Vienna, Austria;

关键词: mems piezoresistive cantilever sensors;    dynamic mode;    carbon nanoparticle;    particle mass measurement;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s20030618

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this study, we investigate the performance of two piezoresistive micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)-based silicon cantilever sensors for measuring target analytes (i.e., ultrafine particulate matters). We use two different types of cantilevers with geometric dimensions of 1000 × 170 × 19.5 µm³ and 300 × 100 × 4 µm³, which refer to the 1st and 2nd types of cantilevers, respectively. For the first case, the cantilever is configured to detect the fundamental in-plane bending mode and is actuated using a resistive heater. Similarly, the second type of cantilever sensor is actuated using a meandering resistive heater (bimorph) and is designed for out-of-plane operation. We have successfully employed these two cantilevers to measure and monitor the changes of mass concentration of carbon nanoparticles in air, provided by atomizing suspensions of these nanoparticles into a sealed chamber, ranging from 0 to several tens of µg/m³ and oversize distributions from ~10 nm to ~350 nm. Here, we deploy both types of cantilever sensors and operate them simultaneously with a standard laboratory system (Fast Mobility Particle Sizer, FMPS, TSI 3091) as a reference.

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