Abstract:
Systems and methods for a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a first outer layer and a first device layer comprising a first set of MEMS devices, wherein the first device layer is bonded to the first outer layer. The system also comprises a second outer layer and a second device layer comprising a second set of MEMS devices, wherein the second device layer is bonded to the second outer layer. Further, the system comprises a central layer having a first side and a second side opposite that of the first side, wherein the first side is bonded to the first device layer and the second side is bonded to the second device layer.
Abstract:
A vibration transducer includes a silicon single crystal vibration beam provided over a silicon single crystal substrate, the vibration beam having a sectional shape that is longer in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the silicon single crystal substrate than in a direction parallel with it, a shell made of silicon, surrounding the vibration beam with a gap, and forming a vacuum room together with the silicon single crystal substrate, a plate-like first electrode plate disposed parallel with the surface of the silicon single crystal substrate, the first electrode plate having one end connected to the vibration beam, plate-like second and third electrode plates disposed parallel with the surface of the silicon single crystal substrate so as to be opposed to each other with the vibration beam interposed in between, and asperities formed on confronting side surfaces of the vibration beam and the second and third electrode plates.
Abstract:
A chip package structure and a method for forming the chip package structure are disclosed. At least a block is formed on a surface of a cover, the cover is mounted on a substrate having a sensing device formed thereon for covering the sensing device, and the block is disposed between the cover and the sensing device. In the present invention, the block is mounted on the cover, there is no need to etch the cover to form a protruding portion, and thus the method of the present invention is simple and has low cost.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, the process flow for a capacitive pressures sensor is combined with the process flow for an inertial sensor. In this way, an inertial sensor is realized within the membrane layer of the pressure sensor. The device layer is simultaneously used as z-axis electrode for out-of-plane sensing in the inertial sensor, and/or as the wiring layer for the inertial sensor. The membrane layer (or cap layer) of the pressure sensor process flow is used to define the inertial sensor sensing structures. Insulating nitride plugs in the membrane layer are used to electrically decouple the various sensing structures for a multi-axis inertial sensor, allowing for fully differential sensing.
Abstract:
An exposed end of a micromechanical system having at least one beam-shaped element is connected to a further element of the micromechanical system at the other end thereof. To optimize the mechanical properties of the micromechanical system, recesses are provided in the beam-shaped element in such a way that the mass of the beam-shaped elements decreases toward the exposed end.
Abstract:
A sensor module includes a support member having a first flat surface, a second flat surface orthogonally connected to the first flat surface, a third flat surface orthogonally connected to the first flat surface and the second flat surface, and a fourth flat surface opposed to the first flat surface as an attachment surface to an external member, the first flat surface having a support surface depressed from the first flat surface, IC chips having connection terminals on active surface sides with inactive surface sides along the active surfaces respectively attached to the respective surfaces of the support member, and vibration gyro elements having connection electrodes, and the vibration gyro elements are provided on the active surface sides of the IC chips and the connection electrodes are attached to the connection terminals of the IC chips so that principal surfaces are respectively along the respective surfaces of the support member.
Abstract:
A micro-electromechanical device includes a semiconductor substrate, in which a first microstructure and a second microstructure of reference are integrated. The first microstructure and the second microstructure are arranged in the substrate so as to undergo equal strains as a result of thermal expansions of the substrate. Furthermore, the first microstructure is provided with movable parts and fixed parts with respect to the substrate, while the second microstructure has a shape that is substantially symmetrical to the first microstructure but is fixed with respect to the substrate. By subtracting the changes in electrical characteristics of the second microstructure from those of the first, variations in electrical characteristics of the first microstructure caused by changes in thermal expansion or contraction can be compensated for.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device, comprising: a mass including a main body and two capacitor plates located at the two sides of the main body and connected with the main body, the two capacitor plates being at different elevation levels; an upper electrode located above one of the two capacitor plates, forming one capacitor therewith; and a lower electrode located below the other of the two capacitor plates, forming another capacitor therewith, wherein the upper and lower electrodes are misaligned with each other in a horizontal direction.
Abstract:
A microscale device comprises a patterned forest of vertically grown and aligned carbon nanotubes defining a carbon nanotube forest with the nanotubes having a height defining a thickness of the forest, the patterned forest defining a patterned frame that defines one or more components of a microscale device. A conformal coating of substantially uniform thickness at least partially coats the nanotubes, defining coated nanotubes and connecting adjacent nanotubes together, without substantially filling interstices between individual coated nanotubes. A metallic interstitial material infiltrates the carbon nanotube forest and at least partially fills interstices between individual coated nanotubes.
Abstract:
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device may include a MEMS structure above a first substrate. The MEMS structure comprising a central static element, a movable element, and an outer static element. A portion of bonding material between the central static element and the first substrate. A second substrate above the MEMS structure, with a portion of a dielectric layer between the central static element and the second substrate. A supporting post comprises the portion of bonding material, the central static element, and the portion of dielectric material.