Papers by Author: Philip D. Prewett

Abstract: In order to solve pressure measurement problems in the fields of aerospace, petroleum and chemical industry, mobile and military industry, a oil-filled isolated piezoresistive high pressure sensor has been developed with the range of 0~100 MPa, and was able to work reliably under high temperature of above 200 °C. Based on MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical System) and SIMOX (Separation by Implantation of Oxygen) technology, the piezoresistive sensor chip has been developed. By high temperature packaging process, the oil-filled isolated high pressure sensor was fabricated with the sensor chip and corrugated diaphragm. The experimental results showed that the oil-filled isolated high pressure sensor had good performances under high temperature of 200 °C, such as linearity error of 0.07%FS, repeatability error of 0.04%FS, hysteresis error of 0.03%FS.

Abstract: Motif parameters were introduced to characterize line edge roughness (LER) of a nanoscale grating structure. Firstly with electron beam lithography employed the expected nano-scale grating structure with linewidth of 16 nm was fabricated on positive resist. Then the line edge profiles of the structure were extracted and their LERs were characterized. The results showed that the evaluation method is rather simple, effective and recommendable.