Abstract:
A manufacturing method for a porous microneedle array includes: forming a plurality of porous microneedle arrays, each having at least one microneedle and a porous carrier zone lying beneath it on the face of a semiconductor substrate; forming an interlayer between a non-porous residual layer of the semiconductor substrate located on the back side of the semiconductor substrate and the carrier zone, which has greater porosity than the carrier zone; detaching the residual layer from the carrier zone by breaking up the interlayer; and separating the microneedle arrays into corresponding chips.
Abstract:
A method for producing a component having at least one diaphragm formed in the upper surface of the component, which diaphragm spans a cavity, and having at least one access opening to the cavity from the back side of the component, at least one first diaphragm layer and the cavity being produced in a monolithic semiconductor substrate from the upper surface of the component, and the access opening being produced in a temporally limited etching step from the back side of the substrate. The access opening is placed in a region in which the substrate material comes up to the first diaphragm layer. The etching process for producing the access opening includes at least one anisotropic etching step and at least one isotropic etching step, in the anisotropic etching step, an etching channel from the back side of the substrate being produced, which terminates beneath the first diaphragm layer in the vicinity of the cavity, and at least the end region of this etching channel being expanded in the isotropic etching step until the etching channel is connected to the cavity.
Abstract:
A method for producing a component, and a component, in particular a micromechanical and/or microfluidic and/or microelectronic component, is provided, the component including at least one patterned material region, and in a first step the patterned material region is produced in that microparticles of a first material are embedded in a matrix of a second material, and in a second step the patterned material region is rendered porous by etching using a dry etching method or a gas-phase etching method.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a micromechanical diaphragm structure having access from the rear of the substrate includes: n-doping at least one contiguous lattice-type area of a p-doped silicon substrate surface; porously etching a substrate area beneath the n-doped lattice structure; producing a cavity in this substrate area beneath the n-doped lattice structure; growing a first monocrystalline silicon epitaxial layer on the n-doped lattice structure; at least one opening in the n-doped lattice structure being dimensioned in such a way that it is not closed by the growing first epitaxial layer but instead forms an access opening to the cavity; an oxide layer being created on the cavity wall; a rear access to the cavity being created, the oxide layer on the cavity wall acting as an etch stop layer; and the oxide layer being removed in the area of the cavity.
Abstract:
A method for producing an electro-mechanical microsystem including movable mechanical parts, said method including a phase of releasing at least one movable mechanical part, wherein the releasing phase includes the following steps: formation of at least one porous zone in a first wafer of a semiconductor material; formation of at least a pattern of a material that makes at least one movable mechanical part on a front face of the first wafer and at least a partial encapsulation of the pattern in a sacrificial layer; release of the movable mechanical part through a rear face of the first wafer throughout the porous zone, using a solvent of the sacrificial layer.
Abstract:
A process for fabricating a monocrystalline silicon micromechanical element integrated with a CMOS circuit element within the CMOS technology, wherein a domain of second conducting property is formed within a substrate of first conducting property; the second conducting property is reverse with respect to the first conducting property. A domain of monocrystalline Si is formed within the substrate for fabricating a micromechanical element. A CMOS circuit element as well as a portion of the domain are covered with a protecting layer. Front-side isotropic porous Si-etching from the exposed surface of the domain continues until the portion that will carry the micromechanical element becomes underetched. A porous Si sacrificial layer is created which at least partially encloses the portion. Then the exposed surface of the porous Si sacrificial layer is passivated by applying a metallic thin film thereon. Finally, the metallic thin film that covers the exposed surface of the porous Si sacrificial layer is removed and the porous Si sacrificial layer is dissolved thereby forming the micromechanical element.
Abstract:
A manufacturing method for a porous microneedle array includes: forming a plurality of porous microneedle arrays, each having at least one microneedle and a porous carrier zone lying beneath it on the face of a semiconductor substrate; forming an interlayer between a non-porous residual layer of the semiconductor substrate located on the back side of the semiconductor substrate and the carrier zone, which has greater porosity than the carrier zone; detaching the residual layer from the carrier zone by breaking up the interlayer; and separating the microneedle arrays into corresponding chips.
Abstract:
A capping technology is provided in which, despite the fact that structures which are surrounded by a silicon-germanium filling layer are exposed using ClF3 etching through micropores in the silicon cap, an etching attack on the silicon cap is prevented, namely, either by particularly selective (approximately 10,000:1 or higher) adjustment of the etching process itself, or by using the finding that the oxide of a germanium-rich layer, in contrast to oxidized porous silicon, is not stable but instead may be easily dissolved, to protect the silicon cap.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for fabricating a monocrystalline Si-micromechanical element integrated with a CMOS circuit element within the CMOS technology, wherein a domain of second conducting property is formed within a substrate of first conducting property, here the second conducting property is reverse with respect to the first conducting property, then simultaneously with or immediately after this a domain of monocrystalline Si is formed within the substrate for fabricating a micromechanical element. After this, a CMOS circuit element is fabricated within the substrate through the known steps of CMOS technology and then the circuit element, as well as a portion of said domain for fabricating the micromechanical element that will carry the micromechanical element after its fabrication are covered with a protecting layer. Then by starting a front-side isotropic porous Si-etching from the exposed surface of said domain for fabricating the micromechanical element and by continuing the etching until said portion that will carry the micromechanical element after its fabrication becomes at least in its full extent underetched, a porous Si sacrificial layer is created which at least partially encloses said portion that will carry the micromechanical element after its fabrication. As a next step, the exposed surface of said porous Si sacrificial layer is passivated by applying a metallic thin film thereon and metallic contact pieces of the circuit element through the known steps of CMOS technology are formed. Finally, the metallic thin film that covers the exposed surface of the porous Si sacrificial layer is removed and the micromechanical element is formed by chemically dissolving said porous Si sacrificial layer.
Abstract:
A method for producing a micromechanical diaphragm sensor includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first region, a diaphragm, and a cavity that is located at least partially below the diaphragm. Above at least one part of the first region, a second region is generated in or on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, with at least one part of the second region being provided as crosspieces. The diaphragm is formed by a deposited sealing layer, and includes at least a part of the crosspieces.