Invention Application
- Patent Title: MEMS ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATOR DEVICE FOR RF VARACTOR APPLICATIONS
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Application No.: US15385431Application Date: 2016-12-20
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Publication No.: US20170098509A1Publication Date: 2017-04-06
- Inventor: Arun Gupta , William C. McDonald , Adam Fruehling , Ivan Kmecko , Lance Barron , Divyanshu Agrawal , Arthur M. Turner , John C. Ehmke
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Main IPC: H01G5/16
- IPC: H01G5/16 ; H01G5/011 ; B81B7/00 ; H01G5/40

Abstract:
A MEMs actuator device and method of forming includes arrays of actuator elements. Each actuator element has a moveable top plate and a bottom plate. The top plate includes a central membrane member and a cantilever spring for movement of the central membrane member. The bottom plate consists of two RF signal lines extending under the central membrane member. A MEMs electrostatic actuator device includes a CMOS wafer, a MEMs wafer, and a ball bond assembly. Interconnections are made from a ball bond to an associated through-silicon-via (TSV) that extends through the MEMS wafer. A RF signal path includes a ball bond electrically connected through a TSV and to a horizontal feed bar and from the first horizontal feed bar vertically into each column of the array. A metal bond ring extends between the CMOS wafer and the MEMS wafer. An RF grounding loop is completed from a ground shield overlying the array to the metal bond ring, a TSV and to a ball bond.
Public/Granted literature
- US09966194B2 MEMS electrostatic actuator device for RF varactor applications Public/Granted day:2018-05-08
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