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公开(公告)号:US20020081765A1
公开(公告)日:2002-06-27
申请号:US09749171
申请日:2000-12-27
Inventor: Cleopatra Cabuz , Jeffrey Alan Ridley
IPC: H01L021/00
CPC classification number: B81C1/0015 , B81B2201/0228 , B81C2201/019
Abstract: Methods for making thin silicon layers suspended over recesses in glass wafers or substrates are disclosed. The suspended silicon wafers can be thin and flat, and can be made using methods not requiring heavy doping or wet chemical etching of the silicon. Devices suitable for production using methods according to the invention include tuning forks, combs, beams, inertial devices, and gyroscopes. One embodiment of the present invention includes providing a thin silicon wafer, and a glass wafer or substrate. Recesses are formed in one surface of the glass wafer, and electrodes are formed in the recesses. The silicon wafer is then bonded to the glass wafer over the recesses. The silicon wafer is them etched to impart the desired suspended or silicon wafer structure. In another embodiment of the present invention, the silicon wafer has a patterned metal layer. The silicon wafer is bonded to the glass wafer, with the patterned metal layer positioned adjacent the recesses in the glass wafer. The silicon wafer is selectively etched down to the metal layer, which serves as an etch stop. The metalized layer can provide sharper feature definition at the silicon-metalization layer interface, and may also serve to seal gasses within the recessed cavities of the glass wafer during the silicon etching process. The metal layer can then be subsequently removed.
Abstract translation: 公开了将薄硅层悬浮在玻璃晶片或衬底中的凹槽上的方法。 悬浮的硅晶片可以是薄且平坦的,并且可以使用不需要对硅进行重掺杂或湿化学蚀刻的方法制成。 适用于根据本发明的方法生产的装置包括调谐叉,梳,梁,惯性装置和陀螺仪。 本发明的一个实施例包括提供薄硅晶片和玻璃晶片或基板。 凹部形成在玻璃晶片的一个表面上,电极形成在凹部中。 然后将硅晶片在凹槽上结合到玻璃晶片。 硅晶片被刻蚀以赋予所需的悬浮或硅晶片结构。 在本发明的另一个实施例中,硅晶片具有图案化的金属层。 硅晶片结合到玻璃晶片,图案化金属层位于玻璃晶片中的凹槽附近。 硅晶片被选择性地向下蚀刻到用作蚀刻停止层的金属层。 金属化层可以在硅 - 金属化层界面处提供更清晰的特征定义,并且还可以用于在硅蚀刻工艺期间将气体密封在玻璃晶片的凹陷空腔内。 然后可以随后去除金属层。
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公开(公告)号:US20240092630A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-21
申请号:US18263267
申请日:2022-01-17
Inventor: Chunzhi DONG , Hiroyuki AIZAWA
IPC: B81B3/00
CPC classification number: B81B3/0021 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2203/0307 , B81B2203/04
Abstract: A capacitive sensor includes at least one support member, a first anchor member, a second anchor member, a first connecting member, and a second connecting member. The first anchor member is fixed to only the first substrate of the first substrate and the second substrate. The second anchor member is fixed to the first substrate and the second substrate. The first connecting member is separate from the first substrate and the second substrate and connects the first anchor member to the movable member. The second connecting member connects the first anchor member to the second anchor member. The first connecting member includes a first elastic member which is elastically deformable. The second connecting member includes at least one second elastic member which is separate from the first substrate and the second substrate and which is elastically deformable.
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公开(公告)号:US20240043265A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-08
申请号:US18359754
申请日:2023-07-26
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
Inventor: Giorgio ALLEGATO , Silvia NICOLI , Anna ALESSANDRI , Matteo GARAVAGLIA
CPC classification number: B81B7/0022 , B81C1/00269 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2203/0315 , B81B2207/053 , B81C2203/0154 , B81C2203/0109 , B81C2203/038
Abstract: Electronic device including: a MEMS sensor device including a functional structure which transduces a chemical or physical quantity into a corresponding electrical quantity; a cap including a semiconductive substrate; and a bonding dielectric region, which mechanically couples the cap to the MEMS sensor device. The cap further includes a conductive region, which extends between the semiconductive substrate and the MEMS sensor device and includes: a first portion, which is arranged laterally with respect to the semiconductive substrate and is exposed, so as to be electrically coupleable to a terminal at a reference potential by a corresponding wire bonding; and a second portion, which contacts the semiconductive substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20180297835A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-18
申请号:US15935944
申请日:2018-03-26
Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
Inventor: Michael Curcic , Oliver Willers , Sven Zinober , Ulrich Kunz
CPC classification number: B81B7/0012 , B81B2201/0228 , B81C1/00539
Abstract: A method is provided for protecting a MEMS unit, in particular a MEMS sensor, against infrared investigations, a surface patterning being performed for at least one first area of a surface of the MEMS unit, the first area absorbing, reflecting or diffusely scattering more than 50%, in particular more than 90% of an infrared light incident upon it.
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公开(公告)号:US09957159B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-01
申请号:US15470670
申请日:2017-03-27
Applicant: Evigia Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Weibin Zhu , Navid Yazdi
IPC: H01L31/058 , H01L21/76 , H01L21/302 , H01L21/461 , B81C1/00 , H01L27/12 , B81B7/00
CPC classification number: B81C1/0069 , B81B7/0019 , B81B7/0096 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2201/0278 , B81B2207/07 , B81B2207/99 , B81C2201/0126 , B81C2201/0132 , B81C2203/0118 , H01L27/1207
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an ovenized platform and a fabrication process thereof. Specifically, the invention relates to an ovenized hybrid Si/SiO2 platform compatible with typical CMOS and MEMS fabrication processes and methods of its manufacture. Embodiments of the invention may include support arms, CMOS circuitry, temperature sensors, IMUs, and/or heaters among other elements.
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公开(公告)号:US20170355596A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-14
申请号:US15669916
申请日:2017-08-05
Applicant: Versana Micro Inc
Inventor: BISHNU PRASANNA GOGOI
CPC classification number: B81B7/02 , B81B2201/0207 , B81B2201/0214 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2201/0257 , B81B2201/0264 , B81B2201/0278 , B81B2207/012 , B81B2207/05 , B81B2207/09 , H01L27/14 , H01L27/16 , H01L27/22 , H01L41/1132 , H01L41/1138 , H01L2924/00 , H05K7/02
Abstract: A monolithically integrated multi-sensor (MIMS) is disclosed. A MIMs integrated circuit comprises a plurality of sensors. For example, the integrated circuit can comprise three or more sensors where each sensor measures a different parameter. The three or more sensors can share one or more layers to form each sensor structure. In one embodiment, the three or more sensors can comprise MEMs sensor structures. Examples of the sensors that can be formed on a MIMs integrated circuit are an inertial sensor, a pressure sensor, a tactile sensor, a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a microphone, a force sensor, a load sensor, a magnetic sensor, a flow sensor, a light sensor, an electric field sensor, an electrical impedance sensor, a galvanic skin response sensor, a chemical sensor, a gas sensor, a liquid sensor, a solids sensor,and a biological sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20170275157A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-28
申请号:US15470670
申请日:2017-03-27
Applicant: Evigia Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Weibin Zhu , Navid Yazdi
CPC classification number: B81C1/0069 , B81B7/0019 , B81B7/0096 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2201/0278 , B81B2207/07 , B81B2207/99 , B81C2201/0126 , B81C2201/0132 , B81C2203/0118 , H01L27/1207
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an ovenized platform and a fabrication process thereof. Specifically, the invention relates to an ovenized hybrid Si/SiO2 platform compatible with typical CMOS and MEMS fabrication processes and methods of its manufacture. Embodiments of the invention may include support arms, CMOS circuitry, temperature sensors, IMUs, and/or heaters among other elements.
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公开(公告)号:US20170253477A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-07
申请号:US15602760
申请日:2017-05-23
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
Inventor: Lorenzo BALDO , Enri DUQI , Flavio Francesco VILLA
CPC classification number: B81B7/0045 , B81B3/0072 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2201/025 , B81B2203/0127 , B81B2203/0163 , B81B2203/0315 , B81B2207/012 , B81C1/00182 , B81C1/00325 , B81C2201/0116 , B81C2201/0173 , B81C2203/0785 , G02B26/0858
Abstract: A micro-electro-mechanical device formed in a monolithic body of semiconductor material accommodating a first buried cavity; a sensitive region above the first buried cavity; and a second buried cavity extending in the sensitive region. A decoupling trench extends from a first face of the monolithic body as far as the first buried cavity and laterally surrounds the second buried cavity. The decoupling trench separates the sensitive region from a peripheral portion of the monolithic body.
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公开(公告)号:US20170247246A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-31
申请号:US15506068
申请日:2015-06-23
Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
Inventor: Christoph Schelling , Benedikt Stein , Michael Stumber
IPC: B81B3/00
CPC classification number: B81B3/0086 , B81B2201/01 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2201/0257 , B81B2201/0264 , B81B2203/0127 , B81B2203/0136 , B81C1/00801
Abstract: A layer material which is particularly suitable for the realization of self-supporting structural elements having an electrode in the layer structure of a MEMS component. The self-supporting structural element is at least partially made up of a silicon carbonitride (Si1-x-yCxNy)-based layer.
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公开(公告)号:US09638596B2
公开(公告)日:2017-05-02
申请号:US14248324
申请日:2014-04-08
Applicant: Wai Yew Lo
Inventor: Wai Yew Lo
IPC: G01L9/00 , H01L23/495 , H01L25/04 , G01L19/00 , G01L19/06
CPC classification number: G01L9/0052 , B81B2201/0228 , B81B2201/0264 , G01L19/0069 , G01L19/06 , H01L23/49503 , H01L23/4951 , H01L23/49513 , H01L25/041 , H01L2224/16245 , H01L2224/48091 , H01L2924/181 , H01L2924/00014 , H01L2924/00012
Abstract: A cavity-down pressure sensor device has a pressure-sensing die that is electrically connected to a master control unit (MCU) using face-to-face bonding. Connecting the pressure-sensing die in this manner avoids the need to wire bond the pressure-sensing die to the master control unit.
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