Computer aided modeling for a miniature silicon-on-insulator MEMS piezoresistive pressure sensor

摘要

The silicon-on-insulator diaphragm structure is a combined structure of the silicon dioxide and silicon layer. This work presents a new method to estimate the deflection response of silicon with that of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) diaphragm structure, based on the burst pressure design approach. It also evaluates the output voltage of the diaphragm under two different conditions, flipped and un-flipped. The new modified analytical model developed and presented in this paper for describing the load deflection of SOI diaphragm is able to predict the deflection accurately when compared with the results obtained by finite element analysis CoventorWare®.