• DocumentCode
    2735813
  • Title

    The study of silicon thermopile

  • Author

    Muanghlua, R. ; Cheirsirikul, S. ; Supadech, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Eng., King Mongkut´´s Inst. of Technol., Bangkok, Thailand
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    226
  • Abstract
    This research paper introduces a silicon thermopile sensor, which shows higher Seebeck coefficient than a metal thermopile sensor. The vacuum evaporation technique was used to fabricate this silicon-based thermopile with Titanium as parts of the sensor. By using the concept that different of temperature between junctions would induce voltage that correspond to the temperature different and materials used for the device. This work starting from design, fabricate, and test the device. At the ends of this work, we successfully fabricated the sensor and tested. The results show that the sensor demonstrate higher Seebeck coefficient than the one from metal-base thermopile sensor. For the future work, the different materials will be used to fabricate the thermopile sensor and compared to the Seebeck coefficient of the one from silicon
  • Keywords
    Seebeck effect; elemental semiconductors; silicon; temperature sensors; thermopiles; vacuum deposited coatings; Seebeck coefficient; Si; fabrication; silicon thermopile sensor; vacuum evaporation; Charge carriers; Conducting materials; Equations; Semiconductor materials; Silicon; Temperature sensors; Testing; Thermal sensors; Thermoelectricity; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    TENCON 2000. Proceedings
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6355-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TENCON.2000.892262
  • Filename
    892262