Abstract:
Patterning of microelectronic and micromechanical devices is described using probes. In one example, a plurality of probe tips are driven into a processing layer of a substrate. The probe tips are carried by movable sleds. The sleds are moved to write patterns into the processing layer using the probes, and the processing layer is processed to form features on the substrate.
Abstract:
A MEMS microphone includes a substrate having a cavity, a diaphragm disposed above the cavity and having a ventilation path, and a back plate disposed above the diaphragm and having a plurality of air holes. The ventilation path includes a plurality of slits extending in a circumferential direction.
Abstract:
An approach includes a method of fabricating a switch. The approach includes forming a first fixed electrode and a second fixed electrode, forming a first cantilevered electrode aligned vertically over the first fixed electrode, forming a second cantilevered electrode aligned vertically over the second fixed electrode, and which has an end that overlaps and is operable to directly contact an end of the first cantilevered electrode upon an application of a voltage to at least one of the first fixed electrode and the second fixed electrode, and forming a hermetically sealed volume encapsulating the first fixed electrode, the second fixed electrode, the first cantilevered electrode, and the second cantilevered electrode.
Abstract:
An approach includes a method of fabricating a switch. The approach includes forming a first cantilevered electrode, forming a second cantilevered electrode over an electrode and operable to contact the first cantilevered electrode upon an application of a voltage to the electrode, and forming an arm on the first cantilevered electrode with an extending protrusion extending upward from an upper surface of the arm.
Abstract:
An approach includes a method of fabricating a switch. The approach includes forming a first cantilevered electrode over a first fixed electrode, forming a second cantilevered electrode with an end that overlaps the first cantilevered electrode, forming a third cantilevered electrode operable to directly contact the first cantilevered electrode upon an application of a voltage to a second fixed electrode, and forming a hermetically sealed volume encapsulating the first fixed electrode, the second fixed electrode, the first cantilevered electrode, and the second cantilevered electrode.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes providing a substrate with a first surface and a second surface, wherein at least one soldering pad is formed on the first surface of the substrate. The method also includes forming at least one via to expose each soldering pad by etching the substrate from the second surface, forming a seed layer to cover the second surface of the substrate and the sidewall and the bottom surfaces of each via, and then forming a redistribution metal layer over a portion of the seed layer formed on the sidewall and the bottom surfaces of each via and the second surface of the substrate surrounding each via. The method further includes alternately performing a pre-wetting process and a chemical etching process to completely remove the portion of the seed layer not covered by the redistribution metal layer.
Abstract:
The invention provides a MEMS device, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing the same. The MEMS device comprises an enclosed cavity, the cavity having an inner wall extending in a first plane, the inner wall including a film deposition region for depositing a getter film, wherein one or more grooves are formed in the film deposition region, the angle between the sidewalls of the grooves and the first plane is more than 0° and less than 180°, and the getter film overlays the sidewall of the grooves. The invention can form the getter film in a smaller incident flux angle with a common sputtering, evaporation apparatus, that is, form the porous, high roughness getter.
Abstract:
MEMS switches and methods of manufacturing MEMS switches is provided. The MEMS switch having at least two cantilevered electrodes having ends which overlap and which are structured and operable to contact one another upon an application of a voltage by at least one fixed electrode.
Abstract:
Methods for forming inorganic nanostructures are provided. The methods create the inorganic nanostructures by positioning a writing electrode (e.g., a conductive “stamp”) spaced nanometers above a substrate such that a precursor is intermediate the two. Applying an electric field, a voltage bias, an ionic current, or an electronic current between the writing electrode and the substrate converts the precursor into an inorganic solid material (e.g., a semiconductor such as silicon or germanium) in the area of the writing electrode.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for functionalizing fluid lines (1b) in a micromechanical device, the walls of which include an opaque layer. For this purpose, the invention provides a method for functionalizing a micromechanical device provided with a fluid line including a peripheral wall (5) having a surface (2) outside the line and an inner surface (3) defining a space (1b) in which a fluid can circulate, the peripheral wall at least partially including a silicon layer (5a). The method includes the following steps: a) providing a device, the peripheral wall (5) of which at least partially includes a silicon layer (5a) having, at least locally, a thickness (e) of more than 100 nm and less than 200 nm, advantageously of 160 to 180 nm; c) silanizing at least the inner surface of the fluid line; d) the localized, selective photo-deprotection on at least the inner surface of the silanized device by exposing the peripheral wall (5) at the point at which said wall has a thickness (e) of more than 100 nm and less than 200 nm, advantageously of 160 to 180 nm.