Thermopile on an electrical insulating substrate
AssigneeBerkin B.V.
InventorsHendrick Jan Boer, Frederik Van Der Graaf, Boudewijn Martinus
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Abstract
A thermopile on an electrically insulating substrate. A pattern is arranged on this substrate of parts which consist of a first conductive material, to which a second conductive material is applied, and parts which consist only of the first conductive material. The second material is better electrically conducting than the first and, connected as thermopile, can thereby generate a certain thermo-voltage. The second material is applied to the first, starting from a layer of the first material on the substrate, by etching stripes therein via the so-called “blind-hole etching” technique and applying the second material in these stripes.
Claims6
A thermopile comprising a plurality of thermocouples, comprising an electrically insulating substrate having thereon a layer of a first conductive material, said layer having etched recesses in which a second conductive material has been deposited on the first conductive material, the thickness of the second conductive material being greater than the thickness of the first conductive material remaining below the recesses.
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