Abstract:
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a high density getter. The high density getter includes a silicon surface area formed by porosification or by the formation of trenches within a sealed cavity of the device. The silicon surface area includes a deposition of titanium or other gettering material to reduce the amount of gas present in the sealed chamber such that a low pressure chamber is formed. The high density getter is used in bolometers and gyroscopes but is not limited to those devices.
Abstract:
Procédé de fabrication d'une structure micromécanique et/ou nanomécanique comportant les étapes à partir d'un élément comportant un substrat support et une couche sacrificielle : a) formation d'une première couche dont au moins une partie est poreuse, b) formation, sur la première couche, d'une couche en un (ou plusieurs) matériau(x) assurant les propriétés mécanique de la structure, dite couche intercalaire, c) formation, sur la couche intercalaire, d'une deuxième couche dont au moins une partie est poreuse, d) formation de ladite structure dans l'empilement de la première couche, de la couche intercalaire et de la deuxième couche, e) libération de ladite structure par retrait au moins partielle de la couche sacrificielle.
Abstract:
This disclosure enables high-productivity controlled fabrication of uniform porous semiconductor layers (made of single layer or multi-layer porous semiconductors such as porous silicon, comprising single porosity or multi-porosity layers). Some applications include fabrication of MEMS separation and sacrificial layers for die detachment and MEMS device fabrication, membrane formation and shallow trench isolation (STI) porous silicon (using porous silicon formation with an optimal porosity and its subsequent oxidation). Further, this disclosure is applicable to the general fields of photovoltaics, MEMS, including sensors and actuators, stand-alone, or integrated with integrated semiconductor microelectronics, semiconductor microelectronics chips and optoelectronics.
Abstract:
A process for forming a porous metal oxide or metalloid oxide material, the process including: - providing an anodic substrate including a metal or metalloid substrate;- providing a cathodic substrate; - contacting the anodic substrate and the cathodic substrate with an acid electrolyte to form an electrochemical cell; - applying an electrical signal to the electrochemical cell;- forming shaped pores in the metal or metalloid substrate by: (c) time varying the applied voltage of the electrical signal to provide a voltage cycle having a minimum voltage period during which a minimum voltage is applied, a maximum voltage period during which a maximum voltage is applied, and a transition period between the minimum voltage period and the maximum voltage period, wherein the voltage is progressively increased from the minimum voltage to the maximum voltage during the transition period, or (d) time varying the current of the electrical signal to provide a current cycle having a minimum current period during which a minimum current is applied, a maximum current period during which a maximum current is applied, and a transition period between the minimum current period and the maximum current period, wherein the voltage is progressively increased from the minimum current to the maximum current during the transition period.
Abstract:
A semiconductor substrate comprising at least a buried insulating cavity (10b, 10d) and comprising: - a semiconductor substrate (7) having a first type of concentration and having a plurality of trenches (8, 10), - a surface layer (7a, 9a) on said semiconductor substrate (7) in order to close superficially said plurality of trenches (8, 10) forming said at least a buried insulating cavity (10b, 10d); - a first semiconductor material layer (9) on said surface layer (7a, 9a) having the same first type of concentration as said semiconductor substrate (7), said first semiconductor material layer (9) comprising at least a trench (11) which is in communication with said at least a buried insulating cavity (10b, 10d).
Abstract:
Provided is a particle that includes a first porous region and a second porous region that differs from the first porous region. Also provided is a particle that has a wet etched porous region and that does have a nucleation layer associated with wet etching. Methods of making porous particles are also provided.
Abstract:
The present invention proposes a method for the production of a component (10), comprising at least one membrane (11) configured in the component surface, the membrane spanning a cavern (12), and further comprising at least one access opening (14) to the cavern (12) coming from the component rear, wherein at least one first membrane layer (2) and the cavern (12) are created in a monolithic semiconductor substrate (1) starting from the component surface, and wherein the access opening (14) starting from the substrate rear is created in a chronologically limited etching process. For this purpose, according to the invention the access opening (14) is disposed in a region in which the substrate material reaches the first membrane layer (2). Further, the etching process comprises at least one anisotropic etching step and at least one isotropic etching step for creating the access opening (14), wherein an etching channel (15) is created starting at the substrate rear in the anisotropic etching step, the channel ending beneath the first membrane layer (2) in the surrounding region of the cavern (12), and wherein at least the and region (16) of this etching channel (15) is widened in the isotropic etching step, until the etching channel (15) is connected to the cavern.