CAPACITIVE MICRO-MACHINED TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    1.
    发明公开
    CAPACITIVE MICRO-MACHINED TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME 审中-公开
    MICRO机械MANUFACTURED电容转换器及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:EP2806983A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-03

    申请号:EP13709546.9

    申请日:2013-01-23

    IPC分类号: B06B1/02

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a capacitive micro- machined transducer (100), in particular a CMUT, the method comprising depositing a first electrode layer (10) on a substrate (1), depositing a first dielectric film (20) on the first electrode layer (10), depositing a sacrificial layer (30) on the first dielectric film (20), the sacrificial layer (30) being removable for forming a cavity (35) of the transducer, depositing a second dielectric film (40) on the sacrificial layer (30), depositing a second electrode layer (50) on the second dielectric film (40), and patterning at least one of the deposited layers and films (10, 20, 30, 40, 50), wherein the depositing steps are performed by Atomic Layer Deposition. The present invention further relates to a capacitive micro-machined transducer (100), in particular a CMUT, manufactured by such method.

    CMUT DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, CMUT DEVICE AND APPARATUS
    6.
    发明公开
    CMUT DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, CMUT DEVICE AND APPARATUS 审中-公开
    PROCESS FOR CMUT设备,CMUT设备和仪器

    公开(公告)号:EP3049194A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-03

    申请号:EP14766694.5

    申请日:2014-09-15

    IPC分类号: B06B1/02

    摘要: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a capacitive micro-machined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) device comprising a first electrode (112) on a substrate (110) and a second electrode (122) embedded in an electrically insulating membrane, the first electrode and the membrane being separated by a cavity (130) formed by the removal of a sacrificial material (116) in between the first electrode and the membrane, the method comprising forming a membrane portion (22) on the second electrode and a further membrane portion (24) extending from the membrane portion towards the substrate alongside the sacrificial material, wherein the respective thicknesses the membrane portion and the further membrane portion exceed the thickness of the sacrificial material prior to forming said cavity. A CMUT device manufactured in accordance with this method and an apparatus comprising such a CMUT device are also disclosed.

    CAPACITIVE MICRO-MACHINED TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    7.
    发明公开
    CAPACITIVE MICRO-MACHINED TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME 审中-公开
    MICRO机械MANUFACTURED电容转换器和方法及其生产

    公开(公告)号:EP2922707A2

    公开(公告)日:2015-09-30

    申请号:EP13792500.4

    申请日:2013-11-06

    IPC分类号: B60B1/02

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a capacitive micro- machined transducer (100), in particular a CMUT, the method comprising depositing a first electrode layer (10) on a substrate (1), depositing a first dielectric film (20) on the first electrode layer (10), depositing a sacrificial layer (30) on the first dielectric film (20), the sacrificial layer (30) being removable for forming a cavity (35) of the transducer, depositing a second dielectric film (40) on the sacrificial layer (30), depositing a second electrode layer (50) on the second dielectric film (40), and patterning at least one of the deposited layers and films (10, 20, 30, 40, 50), wherein the depositing steps are performed by Atomic Layer Deposition. The present invention further relates to a capacitive micro-machined transducer (100), in particular a CMUT, manufactured by such method.

    WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE FLUID SENSOR BASED ON NANOWIRE PLATFORM
    9.
    发明公开
    WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE FLUID SENSOR BASED ON NANOWIRE PLATFORM 审中-公开
    范围宽上形成纳米线平台的基础液体传感器

    公开(公告)号:EP2909617A2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-26

    申请号:EP13817722.5

    申请日:2013-10-07

    IPC分类号: G01N27/414 G01N33/00

    摘要: Device (100) for detecting a concentration of a substance in a fluid sample, the device comprising: a substrate (102); an insulating layer (104) arranged on the substrate (102); a plurality of individually electrically addressable semiconducting nanowires (106, 108, 110) arranged on the insulating layer (104), each one of the plurality of nanowires being covered by an insulating material (202, 204, 206) and arranged for sensing of the substance through an electrical characteristic of the nanowire; and a sample compartment (118) for providing the fluid sample in contact with each of the plurality of nanowires; wherein for each of the plurality of nanowires (106, 108, 110), at least one of cross sectional dimension, insulator thickness and type of insulating material is selected such that each of the nanowires has a different detection range, and such that the dynamic range of the device is higher than the dynamic range of each of the individual nanowires.