Capacitive pressure sensor with low parasitic capacitance

A plurality of two-plate capacitive pressure sensors with low parasitic capacitance and easily accessible plates are made with microcircuit and thin film technoloy by depositing a thin layer of glass over a plurality of thin, rigid plates and thin, narrow electrodes previously deposited on a thick glass dielectric substrate, by etching cavities in the thin layer of glass over the plates, and by anodically bonding, in vacuum, thin, doped silicon diaphragms to the thin layer of glass to form variable capacitors each of whose capacitance varies with the pressure outside the sensor.