Abstract
We report on the realization of ultrasensitive absolute pressure sensors based on silicon nitride membrane sandwiches. These sandwiches consist in a pair of highly-pretensioned, ultrathin (50 nm), large area (0.25 mm2) films, suspended parallel to each other and forming an ultrashort (500 nm) open cavity. The compression of a gas in this cavity leads to a strong squeeze film force, resulting in an increase in the membrane mechanical resonance frequencies, which is directly proportional to the absolute gas pressure. These sandwiches show a record high responsivity of >300 Hz/Pa in terms of squeeze film-induced frequency shift in the range 10−3-100 Pa, which, combined with high quality factor mechanical resonances (Q>106), allows for bringing the sensitivity of absolute squeeze film pressure sensors down to the sub-millipascal level.
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