Abstract
A home-made ZnCr 2O 4–K 2CrO 4 ceramic humidity sensor was studied using a commercially available reference humidity sensor, SHT75 from Sensirion. The main advantages of our developed set-up for humidity measurements are low cost and high resolution yielding a full set of information on the variation of humidity. Air moisture sensitive ceramic body prepared using K 2CrO 4 (20%) in ZnCr 2O 4 was produced from the solid-state reaction between zinc oxide and chromite oxide at high temperatures. The dc resistance as a function of relative humidity (RH) showed a strong dependence, decreasing over several orders of magnitude with increasing humidity being a smooth exponential. The air moisture dependent resistance of the ceramic sensor is converted into voltage signals using a circuitry. Basically it consists of an operational amplifier and an A/D converter. Long-term stability measurements showed that ZnCr 2O 4–K 2CrO 4 ceramic system has potential use as an active material in humidity sensors.
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