Patent ID: 8637138

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising: a polyimide layer with a thickness of approximately 3 mils (76.2 μm) or less; and a layered structure on the polyimide layer; the layered structure including: a patterned layer of semiconductor material; and a patterned conductive layer of metal; the patterned layer of semiconductor material including a slab and the patterned conductive layer of metal including one or more contact lines, each contact line extending across and being in electrical contact with a surface of the slab, the slab and the one or more contact lines forming a thermistor having device resistance about 12 kΩ and a Johnson noise of about 8 μK; the slab having a rectangular shape resulting from a number of adjacent lines of printed material that each extended in an extent direction and that all had approximately the same line width in a width direction, the number of adjacent lines being two or more; the slab having a straight boundary or edge of the rectangular shape in the extent direction and a scallop-like boundary or edge of the rectangular shape in the width direction; the rectangular shape having a width in the width direction that is approximately a product of the same line width and the number of adjacent lines; and each contact line having approximately the same line width.