Abstract
The performance of the electric field sensing unit determines the sensitivity, linearity and range of the electric field sensor. In this paper, a kind of alternating electric field sensing unit based on parallel capacitance was been introduced. And it analyzed the measurement principle of the parallel capacitive sensing unit. The structure parameters of the electric field sensing unit with equipotential ring were been designed by simulation, which reduced the influence of edge effect on the performance of the sensing unit. According to the measurement standard of power frequency electric field, the designed sensing units were tested under uniform electric field. And the influence of the sampling capacitances on the static characteristics of the sensing unit was been analyzed. The sensing unit with the best performance had a linearity of 1.6025% and a sensitivity of 248 mV/(kV/m). Its sensing unit had the characteristics of small volume, low production cost and it was easy to integrate and have mass production.
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