In order to achieve the performance requirements of piezoelectric acoustic Lame wave sensor with high quality factor (Q factor)
low limit of detection (LOD) and easy integration
a method was presented in the paper. First
an ultrathin and uniform 2
μ
m-thick silicon substrate was obtained by dry etching of handling silicon layer and automatic stopping of boxing layer based on SOI (Silicon-on-insulator) wafer
and then a 2
μ
m-thick Aluminum Nitride (AlN) piezoelectric thin film with high C axis oriented was deposited. High Q factor could be obtained by the double end reflectors outside the membrane. The LOD could be effectively reduced by using the resonator
and could be verified by the application of trace moisture detection. The experimental results of the lowest anti-symmetric mode (A
0
) and symmetric mode (S
0
) were consistent with the simulation results obtained by using software CMOSOL. The prominent peak value of Q factor of the resonator for A
0
mode was 703
and S
0
was 403. The limit of detection of S
0
mode was better than that of A
0
mode
whose LOD was 0.06%RH. It can be concluded that Lamb wave resonator designed in the paper can be utilized as the high precision detection such as trace moisture detection.
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