A miniature microclimate thermal flow sensor for horticultural applications
2022 IEEE Sensors(2022)
摘要
Closely packed plant canopies have a negative influence on the uniformity of conditioned air and therefore induce physiological disorders inside plant production systems. Real-time leaf-level flow measurements help to improve the microclimate. This application needs a small and low-cost flow sensor for a flow regime up to 1 m s
−1
. The chip that is presented in this paper consists of five suspended heavily p-doped silicon beams with resistors integrated in the tip. A fluid flow along these tips causes a temperature difference between the resistors by convective heat transfer, enabling calorimetric flow sensing. The 4.4 mm by 3.6 mm sensor is realized in a three-mask versatile fabrication process. The sensor shows a range of 1m s
−1
to 3 m s
−1
for air with a maximum sensitivity of 1.8 mV m
−1
s and a standard deviation-based accuracy of 3.6 cm s
−1
. The sensor design is easily scalable in theory, hence, a redesign will be made with a slightly lower flow range to fully meet the requirements for the application.
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Flow sensor,calorimetric,thermal,microfluidics,horticulture,agriculture,MEMS,microclimate
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