Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Concave cavity for integrated microfabricated sensor
-
Application No.: US16918098Application Date: 2020-07-01
-
Publication No.: US11294002B2Publication Date: 2022-04-05
- Inventor: Ann Gabrys , Nathan Brockie , Terry Dyer , Roozbeh Parsa , William French
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Andrew R. Ralston; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G01R33/032
- IPC: G01R33/032 ; G04F5/14

Abstract:
An integrated microfabricated sensor includes a sensor cell having a cell body, a first window attached to the cell body, and a second window attached to the cell body. The cell body laterally surrounds a cavity, so that both windows are exposed to the cavity. The sensor cell contains a sensor fluid material in the cavity. The cavity has concave profiles at cell body walls, so that the cavity is wider in a central region, approximately midway between the first window and the second window, than at the first surface and at the second surface. The cell body walls of the cell body have acute interior angles at both windows. The cell body is formed using an etch process that removes material from the cell body concurrently at the first surface and the second surface, forming the acute interior angles at both the first surface and the second surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200333406A1 CONCAVE CAVITY FOR INTEGRATED MICROFABRICATED SENSOR Public/Granted day:2020-10-22
Information query