Estimation of the long-term stability of piezoresistive LTCC pressure sensors by means of low-frequency noise measurements

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 199, Issue , 2013, Pages 334-343

  Zarnik, Marina Santo ^a,b   Sedlakova, Vlasta ^d   Belavic, Darko ^a,b,c   Sikula, Josef ^d   Majzner, Jiri ^d   Sedlak, Petr ^d  

^a HIPOT RR   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c CoE NAMASTE ^*  (Slovenia)

^d BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Ceramic pressure sensor; LTCC; Pre screening test; Reliability; Stability

Indexed keywords

1/F NOISE; CERAMIC PRESSURE SENSORS; LONG TERM STABILITY; LONG-TERM STABILITY TEST; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE MEASUREMENTS; LTCC; NOISE SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EXPERIMENTS; PRESSURE SENSORS; RELIABILITY;

STABILITY;

EID: 84880319852     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2013.05.030     Document Type: Article

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