Sensor for high-air-humidity measurement

A humidity sensor using a sensitive capacitance-dependent crystal is described. The probe sensitivity (dependence of df on dC(x)) is presented. In addition, the new idea of excitation of the entire humidity sensor with stochastic test signals is described, and the humidity surface-measuring method is given. It includes the influence of test signals on the weighting-function uncertainty and on the A/D-D/A conversion. The results of humidity measurement with the excitation signals are shown experimentally. The uncertainty of the surface humidity measurement is less than 0.2% (T=15-25 degrees C and humidity=50 to 98%).