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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1999
Yoshiyuki Ishikura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yamatake Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A pressure sensor includes a sapphire base, a sapphire diaphragm, a capacitance chamber, a stationary electrode, and a movable electrode. The base has an R-plane major surface. The sapphire diaphragm is formed on the major surface of the base and has an R-plane major surface. The capacitance chamber has an upper surface covered with the diaphragm and has a recess formed in the major surface of the base. The stationary electrode is fixed to a bottom surface of the capacitance chamber. The movable electrode is fixed to a lower surface of the diaphragm in the capacitance chamber to oppose the stationary electrode. At least one of the movable and stationary electrodes has a shape extending on at least one of a line in a C-axis projection direction of a crystal passing through a center of the major surface of the diaphragm and a line in a direction perpendicular to the C-axis projection direction.