High temperature transducers and methods of fabricating the same employing silicon carbide

摘要

There is disclosed an apparatus and structure for a pressure transducer employing silicon carbide and utilizing p-type SiC as a diaphragm with n-type mesa SiC force sensing resistors integrally formed on the surface of the diaphragm. The p-type SiC diaphragm is positioned on top of an annular ring of silicon which is formed from a silicon wafer utilized as the supporting wafer for the process. The structure depicted is a given conductivity SiC diaphragm having opposite conductivity SiC resistors positioned thereon and fabricated by processing techniques utilizing selective etching properties of SiC.