Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaged microchip with a premolded-type package. SOLUTION: A MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) inertial sensor 10 is secured within a premolded-type package 12 formed from a low moisture permeable molding material. Consequently, such a motion detector can be produced more economically than those using ceramic packages. To those ends, the package 12 has at least one wall 13 extending from a lead frame 24 to form a cavity, and an isolator 22 within the cavity. The MEMS inertial sensor 10 has a movable structure suspended above a substrate having a bottom surface. The substrate bottom surface is secured to the isolator top surface at a contact area. The contact area is less than the surface area of the bottom surface of the substrate. Accordingly, the isolator 22 forms a space between at least a portion of the bottom substrate surface and the package 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A method of producing a MEMS device removes the bottom side of a device wafer after its movable structure is formed. To that end, the method provides the device wafer, which has an initial bottom side. Next, the method forms the movable structure on the device wafer, and then removes substantially the entire initial bottom side of the device wafer. Removal of the entire initial bottom side effectively forms a final bottom side.
Abstract:
A MEMS capping method and apparatus uses a cap structure on which is formed a MEMS cavity, a cut capture cavity, and a cap wall. The cap wall is essentially the outer wall of the MEMS cavity and the inner wall of the cut capture cavity. The cap structure is bonded onto a MEMS structure such that the MEMS cavity covers protected MEMS components. The cap structure is trimmed by cutting through to the cut capture cavity from the top of the cap structure without cutting all the way through to the MEMS structure.
Abstract:
A wafer cap protects micro electromechanical system ("MEMS") structures during a dicing of a MEMS wafer to produce individual MEMS dies. A MEMS wafer is prepared having a plurality of MEMS structure sites thereon. Upon the MEMS wafer, the wafer cap is mounted to produce a laminated MEMS wafer. The wafer cap is recessed in areas corresponding to locations of the MEMS structure sites on the MEMS wafer. The capped MEMS wafer can be diced into a plurality of MEMS dies without causing damage to or contaminating the MEMS die.
Abstract:
An apparatus has a leadframe based package base having a leadframe and a lid coupled with the package base. The lid and package base form a chamber for at least partially containing a microphone. The lid is electrically coupled with a given portion of the leadframe in the package base.
Abstract:
A package for a micro-electromechanical (MEMS) device is described. A premolded leadframe base has opposing top and bottom surfaces. Each surface is defined by a topology having at least one electrically conductive portion and at least one electrically non-conductive portion, and the topology of the top surface differs from the topology of the bottom surface.
Abstract:
A conductive bond for through-wafer interconnect is produced by forming an electrode (108) through a first wafer from a component on a front side of the first wafer(102) to a back side of the first wafer(102), forming a first electrically conductive interface (110) in contact with an exposed portion of the electrode (108) on the back side of the first wafer (102), and conductively bonding the first electrically conductive interface (110) with a second electrically conductive interface (114) on a second wafer under pressure at a temperature below the thermal budget of the stacked wafer device. The process temperature is generally well below the melting points of the electrically conductive interfaces. In .some embodiments, the conductive bonding may be facilitated or enabled by performing the conductive bonding in a vacuum.
Abstract:
A sensor has a die (with a working portion), a cap coupled with the die to at least partially cover the working portion, and a conductive pathway extending through the cap to the working portion. The pathway provides an electrical interface to the working portion.