Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitive pressure sensors and other devices having a suspended membrane and having rounded corners at an anchor edge
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Application No.: US16758680Application Date: 2018-11-16
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Publication No.: US11248976B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Willem Frederik Adrianus Besling , Casper Van Der Avoort , Remco Henricus Wilhelmus Pijnenburg , Olaf Wunnicke , Jörg Siegert , Alessandro Faes
- Applicant: Sciosense B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL AE Eindhoven
- Assignee: Sciosense B.V.
- Current Assignee: Sciosense B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL AE Eindhoven
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/081562 WO 20181116
- International Announcement: WO2019/096995 WO 20190523
- Main IPC: G01L9/00
- IPC: G01L9/00 ; G01L9/12 ; G01L19/00

Abstract:
Capacitive pressure sensors and other devices are disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a cavity over the first electrode and a second electrode including a suspended membrane over the cavity and electrically conductive anchor trenches laterally surrounding the cavity, wherein the anchor trenches include an inner anchor trench and an outer anchor trench, the outer anchor trench having rounded corners.
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