This study has demonstrated a simple fabrication process of a thin film cer
amic relative humidity sensing chip at low temperature, 500 degreesC. This
process window to optimize sensitivity and hysteresis performance of the se
nsor has been studied using negative sputtering substrate bias and annealin
g duration. This proposed optimizing method yields an adjustable rutile/ana
tase phase ratio of titanium oxide. It shows improvement to the hysteresis
of sensors and obtains good sensitivity, which is greater than four-orders
of magnitude change in de current over 11-97% relative humidity. (C) 2001 E
lsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.