湿度传感器系统精度及响应特性的优-外文文献翻译.docxVIP

英文:The right design for a relative humidity sensor systemOptimizing the response characteristics and accuracy of a humidity sensor system1 OverviewTo make the right choice when selecting a relative humidity sensor for anapplication, it is important to know and to be able to judge the deciding factors. In addition to long-termstability, which is a measure on how much a sensor changes its properties over time, these factors also include the measurement accuracy and the responsecharacteristics of the sensor. Capacitive humidity sensors are based on the principle that a humidity-sensitive polymer absorbs or releases moisture as a function of the relative ambient humidity. Because this method is only a spot measurement at the sensor location, and usually the humidity of the surroundings is the desired quantity, the sensor must be brought into moisture equilibrium with the surroundings to obtain a precise measurement value. This process is realized by various transport phenomena (cf. the section titled The housing effect on the response time), which exhibit a time constant. Accuracy and response time are thus closely dependent on each other, and the design of a humidity measurement system becomes a challenge.Measurement accuracyThe term measurement accuracy of a humidity sensor is understood primarily to refer to the deviation of the value measured by the sensor from the actual humidity. To determine the measurement accuracy, references, such aschilled mirror hygrometers, whose own tolerance must be taken into account, are used. In addition to this trivialcomponent, humidity sensors require a given time for reaching stable humidity and temperature equilibrium (thehumidity is a function of temperature and decreases with increasing temperature; a difference between sensor andambient temperature leads to measurement errors). This response time thus has a significant effect on the valuemeasured by the sensor and thus on the determined accuracy.Thistime-dependent characterist