CMOS based sensors: From a sample to real products

Sensirion [1] is a high-tech sensor company with headquarters in Switzerland. Based on technological concepts developed in the mid 90 s at ETH Zurich, Sensirion was founded in 1998. Product development started in the same year. Today, Sensirion is a high-tech sensor company, with a highly skilled team of more than 120 employees. About 50% of the manpower is concentrated in R&D. Sensirion successfully manufactures millions of MEMS sensors each year for a wide range of industrial, consumer, medical, and automotive applications. Sensirion is the industry leader for chip based humidity & temperature sensors, mass flow measurement and control devices for gases and liquids, and differential pressure sensors.