摘要:
The invention relates to a method for producing a microelectromechanical device in a material substrate suitable for producing integrated electronic components, in particular a semiconductor substrate, wherein a material substrate (12, 14, 16) is provided on which at least one surface structure (26) is to be formed during production of the device. An electronic component (30) is formed in the material substrate (12, 14, 16) using process steps of a conventional method for producing integrated electronic components. A device component (44) defining the position of the electronic component (30) and/or required for the function of the electronic component (30) is selectively formed on the material substrate (12, 14, 16) from an etching stop material acting as an etching stop in case of etching of the material substrate (12, 14, 16) and/or in case of etching of a material layer (52) disposed on the material substrate (12, 14, 16). When the device component (44) of the electronic component (30) is implemented, a boundary region (48) is also formed on the material substrate (12, 14, 16) along at least a partial section of an edge of the surface structure (26), wherein said boundary region bounds said partial section. The material substrate (12, 14, 16) thus implemented is selectively etched for forming the surface structure (26), in that the edge of the bounding region (48) defines the position of the surface structure (26) to be implemented on the material substrate (12, 14, 16).
摘要:
Disclosed is an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a body (10) including a plurality of circuit elements; and a metallization stack over said circuit elements for interconnecting said circuit elements, wherein the metallization stack comprises a conductive layer portion (22) opposite a flexible further conductive layer portion (24) and separated therefrom by a fluid medium (26), a surface of the said flexible further conductive layer portion being exposed to an external pressure; wherein at least some of the circuit elements are arranged to determining the external pressure by measuring a capacitance across the conductive layer portion and the flexible further conductive layer portion. A method of manufacturing such an IC is also disclosed.
摘要:
A MEMS integrated circuit including a plurality of layers where a portion includes one or more electronic elements on a semiconductor material substrate. The circuit includes a structure of interconnection layers having a bottom layer of conductor material and a top layer of conductor material where the layers are separated by at least one layer of dielectric material. The bottom layer may be formed above and in contact with an Inter Dielectric Layer. The circuit also includes a hollow space within the structure of interconnection layers and a MEMS device in communication with the structure of interconnection layers.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a stack of patterned metal layers (12) separated by dielectric layers (14), said stack comprising a first conductive support structure (20) and a second conductive support structure (21) and a cavity (42) in which an inertial mass element (22) comprising at least one metal portion is conductively coupled to the first support structure and the second support structure by respective conductive connection portions (24), at least one of said conductive connection portions being designed to break upon the inertial mass element being exposed to an acceleration force exceeding a threshold defined by the dimensions of the conductive connection portions. A method of manufacturing such a semiconductor device is also disclosed.
摘要:
A method of making a bipolar transistor and/or an ESD device integrated onto the same substrate as the MEMS element uses a single additional mask and dopant step, to form the shallow well of second conductivity type. In particular, after forming a MEMS element (18) using a series of steps including forming a well of a first conductivity type and a step (24) of forming a shallow contact of the same first conductivity type at locations determined by a first mask, a bipolar transistor (16,42) and/or ESD protection device (16) is formed using a step of forming a shallow contact (8,10,40) ofopposite conductivity type at locations determined by a second mask.
摘要:
The present disclosure proposes a method for manufacturing in a MEMS device a low-resistance contact between a silicon-germanium layer and a layer contacted by this silicon-germanium layer, such as a CMOS metal layer or another silicon-germanium layer, through an opening in a dielectric layer stack separating both layers. An interlayer is formed in this opening, thereby covering at least the sidewalls of the opening on the exposed surface of the another layer at the bottom of this opening. This interlayer may comprise a TiN layer in contact with the silicon-germanium layer. This interlayer can further comprise a Ti layer in between the TiN layer and the layer to be contacted. In another embodiment this interlayer comprises a TaN layer in contact with the silicon-germanium layer. This interlayer can then further comprise a Ta layer in between the TaN layer and the layer to be contacted.
摘要:
Procédé de réalisation d'un dispositif microélectronique comprenant, au moins un composant électro-mécanique (C) doté d'une structure mobile, le procédé comprenant les étapes consistant à : - former dans au moins une fine couche mince semi-conductrice (102) reposant sur une couche de support (101), d'au moins un barreau (104) rattaché à un bloc (102b), ledit barreau étant destiné à former une structure mobile d'un composant électro-mécanique, - retrait d'une portion de la couche de support (101) sous ledit barreau (104), - formation d'au moins une couche de passivation (107) à base de matériau diélectrique autour dudit barreau, - formation d'une couche d'encapsulation (110) autour du barreau et recouvrant ladite couche de passivation,
le procédé comprenant en outre des étapes de : - réalisation de zones métalliques (141, 142, 143, 150 1 , ..., 150 p ) de contact et/ou d'interconnexion, puis - suppression de la couche d'encapsulation (110) autour dudit barreau.
摘要:
A combined IC/Mems process forms the IC parts first, and then forms the MEMS parts (110). One option forms a parylene overlayer, then forms a cavity under the parylene overlayer.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for producing a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) which comprises a sensor and CMOS technology-based electronics for processing the sensor signal, both being monolithically integrated in said system. To fulfil the pre-requisites for producing the electronic part (4) of the sensor (5) and the signal processing electronics using CMOS technology, a semiconductor wafer (2) containing a depression is bonded to a wafer with an epitaxial layer by means of said layer (3) using high-temperature fusion bonding, to form a double wafer and material is subsequently removed from one face of the double wafer. The latter is then polished until the epitaxial layer is exposed, thus creating a membrane (3a).