In order to meet the requirements of vacuum testing under complex conditions such as high temperature and corrosion, a miniaturized differential capacitive vacuum gauge based on 4H-SiC as sensitive material is presented in this paper. The influence of mechanical sensitive structure and capacitance structure on the sensitivity and nonlinearity of the sensor is studied by finite element simulation. The sensor-sensitive unit is composed of a circular sensitive film and an "open mouth" double capacitance structure. The simulation results show that compared with the single capacitance structure, the sensitivity of the differential capacitance sensitive structure decreases by only 0.02 fF/Pa and the nonlinearity decreases from 0.92% to 0.37% in the range of 0~1 000 Pa. This study provides feasible technical support for vacuum pressure testing in a complex environment.
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