Miiller, A.
(2008),
Measurement Performance of High-Accuracy Low-Pressure Transducers, Metrologia
(Accessed April 25, 2024)
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Measurement Performance of High-Accuracy Low-Pressure Transducers
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A systematic study of measurement performance is described for several different types of transducers including capacitance diaphragm gauges (CDGs), quartz Bourdon gauges (QBGs), quartz resonant gauges (QRGs), and two types of MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) sensors, namely, piezoresistive silicon gauges (PSGs) and resonant silicon gauges (RSGs). Key factors that limit their performance were identified as: random noise, short-term instabilities in zero-pressure readings, long-term shifts in a transducer's calibration with time and, in the case of heated gauges, the effect of thermal transpiration. The study determined that CDGs, QBGs, and QRGs have superior noise-limited pressure resolution (approximately equal to} 1 ppm of full scale) though CDGs, because of their availability with lower full-scale ranges, have the best absolute pressure resolution. Analyses of calibration data indicated that QBGs, QRGs and RSGs have the best long-term stability with average calibration shifts of the order of 0.01 % per year, which are 1 to 2 orders of magnitude smaller than those observed for CDGs.Citation
Metrologia
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Journals
Keywords
calibration instabilities, capacitance diaphragm gauges, piezoresistive silicon gauges, pressure resolution, quartz Bourdon gauges, quartz resonant gauges, resident silicon gauges, zero instabilities
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Created October 16, 2008