摘要:
A method of plating a semiconductor wafer while maintaining a uniform thickness of the plated film, preventing the precipitation on the back surface of the wafer and preventing the contamination in the subsequent steps. In directly forming connection terminals on the aluminum electrodes on the semiconductor wafer, the non-electrolytic plating is effected in a state where the back surface of the wafer is covered with an insulator. The insulator is preferably a glass substrate which is a part constituting the product. A semiconductor type sensor exhibits improved corrosion resistance against a corrosive medium. The semiconductor type sensor has, in a semiconductor substrate, a structural portion for detecting the physical quantity or the chemical component of a corrosive medium and an electric quantity conversion element, and has pads which are the output terminals for sending the detected electric signals to an external unit, wherein the pads are protected by a precious metal.
摘要:
In a semiconductor pressure sensor having a diaphragm portion and strain gauges on the diaphragm portion, Al stress balance films are provided around the diaphragm portion to balance changes in stress of the strain gauges, which are produced by a change in temperature. As a result, sensor output is prevented from varying due to the change in temperature.
摘要:
A pressure sensor mainly includes a sensor chip, a circuit chip, and a substrate. The sensor chip is configured to generate an electrical signal representative of a pressure being sensed and includes a sensing area and a plurality of contact pads. The circuit chip includes a circuit configured to process the electrical signal and a plurality of contact pads. The substrate includes a resin sheet having an opening and a plurality of conductors within the resin sheet. The substrate is joined to both the sensor chip and circuit chip so that the sensing area of the sensor chip is to be exposed to the pressure being sensed through the opening of the resin sheet, the contact pads of the sensor chip and circuit chip are electrically connected to the conductors of the substrate, and all the contact pads and conductors are hermetically embedded in the resin sheet of the substrate.
摘要:
A pressure detecting device includes a semiconductor substrate (30, 200, 300, 400) for outputting an electrical signal corresponding to an applied pressure received from a pressure transmitting member (20) having electrically conductive properties disposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate (30, 200, 300, 400). The substrate (30, 200, 300, 400) and the pressure transmitting member (20) are accommodated in a housing (10). A lead member (50) electrically independent of the housing (10) is accommodated in the housing (10) at the back surface side of the semiconductor substrate (30, 200, 300, 400), and the lead member (50) and an electrode (35b) of the substrate (30, 200, 300, 400) are electrically connected to each other through conductive adhesive material (40). The housing (10) preferably includes a first portion (101), a second portion (102) having smaller thermal conductivity than the first portion, and an electrically conductive partition portion (103).
摘要:
A pressure sensor chip includes a diaphragm and pads. A flexible printed circuit board (FPC) includes a resin sheet having a through-hole and wiring patterns that are formed within the resin sheet and sealed. The resin sheet is press-fitted to the pressure sensor chip such that the diaphragm is bared at the through-hole. The wiring patterns are connected to the pads, and junctions between the wiring patterns and the pads are sealed with the resin sheet.
摘要:
A pressure detecting apparatus has a single-crystal semiconductor sensor chip disposed on a metallic diaphragm through a low melting point glass. The sensor chip has a planar shape selected from a circular shape, a first polygonal shape having more than five sides and having interior angles all less than 180°, and a second polygonal shape having a ratio of a circumscribed circle diameter relative to an inscribed circle diameter being less than 1.2. Four strain gauge resistors are disposed on X, Y axes passing through a center point O of the sensor chip in parallel with directions. Accordingly, thermal stress is reduced not to adversely affect a detection error and simultaneously high sensitivity is provided.
摘要:
A semiconductor pressure sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having a diaphragm portion. A diaphragm formation region including the diaphragm portion is electrically insulated from a peripheral region therearound. Voltage is applied to the diaphragm formation region via a pad and a wire both formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, for fixing a potential of the diaphragm formation region when the sensor is put in an operating state. The fixed potential is set to be equal to or higher than a maximum potential of a gauge diffusion resistive layer formed in the diaphragm formation region. As a result, even when the maximum potential of the gauge diffusion resistive layer is a power supply voltage, it can be prevented that current leaks from the gauge diffusion resistive layer.
摘要:
A diffusion gauge is formed in a surface of a silicon substrate which has a plane orientation of (110). The diffusion gauge is disposed so that a main current thereof flows along a direction perpendicular to a direction in which large stress biased in one direction generates in the surface of the silicon substrate due to distortion of a base for fixing the silicon substrate. Therefore, even when the large biased stress generates in the surface of the silicon substrate, because the direction in which the main current of the diffusion gauge flows is perpendicular to the direction in which the biased stress generates, there is a little change in a resistance value of the diffusion gauge. As a result, a detection error caused by the distortion of the base can be reduced.
摘要:
A pressure detecting bridge circuit produces a sensor signal Sd. A temperature detecting bridge circuit produces a temperature signal St. A reference voltage generating circuit produces a reference signal Sa. An analog multiplexer processes these signals Sd, St and Sa in a time-divisional manner. A differential amplification circuit and an A/D conversion circuit are commonly used to obtain the digital data corresponding to the sensor signal Sd, the temperature signal St and the reference signal Sa. The temperature detecting bridge circuit includes reference resistance elements. By adjusting the design resistance values of the reference resistance elements, the variation width of the sensor signal Sd in a pressure measuring range of the pressure detecting bridge circuit is substantially equalized in advance with the variation width of the temperature signal St in a temperature measuring range of the temperature detecting bridge circuit.
摘要:
The TMR device has a structure including a lower electrode layer, a pinned layer, a tunnel barrier layer, a free layer, and an upper electrode layer which are successively formed on a substrate. The tunnel barrier layer has substantially a stoichiometric composition. The tunnel barrier layer may be a thin film of an oxide of AL formed by ALD method.