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Some commercial thick film resistors with sheet resistivities from 1 kohm/sq. up to 1 Mohm/sq. were evaluated for strain gauge applications. Temperature coefficients of resistivity, noise indices and gauge factors (GFs) were measured. For the same resistor series GFs and noise indices increase with increasing sheet resistivity. However, both GFs and noise indices are different for resistors with the same nominal sheet resistivity but from different resistor series. The results indicated that the microstructure rather than the different chemical composition of the conductive phase in thick film resistors is the primary reason for the different gauge factors.
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Hrovat, M., Belavič, D., Samardžija, Z. et al. A characterisation of thick film resistors for strain gauge applications. Journal of Materials Science 36, 2679–2689 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017908728642
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