摘要:
A process for creating and an apparatus employing shaped orifices in a semiconductor substrate. A first layer of material is applied on the semiconductor substrate then a second layer of material is then applied upon the first layer of material. An orifice image is then transferred to the first layer of material and a fluid-well image is transferred to the second layer of material. That portion of the second layer of material where the orifice image is located is then developed along with that portion of the first layer of material where the fluid well is located to define an orifice in the substrate.
摘要:
A method of creating a fluid ejection device is described. The fluid ejection device has a substrate having a set of thin-film layers disposed on a first surface. A photoresist is applied on the set of thin-film layers, the photoresist has openings defined therein. The set of thin-film layers and substrate in the openings are etched to create deep slots beneath the first surface of the substrate. The photoresist is removed. A protection layer is applied over the set of thin-film layers thereby filling the deep slots in the set of thin-film layers and substrate. A feed channel is created on a second surface of the substrate until the protection layer within the deep slots is exposed. The protection layer is then removed.
摘要:
The invention is a fluid ejection device, such as a printhead, that has a substrate with a first surface mating to an orifice layer, preferably through a stack of thin-film layers. The orifice layer defines a fluid chamber interfacing to an orifice opening or nozzle. The substrate has a second surface having a truncated pyramidal structure; either polyhedral or triangular ridge shaped defining an opening through the substrate to the fluid chamber. The substrate further has an ejection element, preferably disposed as a resistor in the stack of thin-film layers. When energy is transferred from the ejection element to the fluid in the fluid chamber, fluid is ejected from the orifice opening. The fluid ejection device may have one or a plurality of fluid chambers and one or a plurality of frustums of a truncated polyhedral, truncated pyramidal, truncated conical or truncated triangular cross-sectional ridge structures defining openings from the second surface of the substrate to the fluid chambers.
摘要:
In one example, a method for making diagonal openings in photodefinable glass includes exposing part of a body of photodefinable glass to a beam of light oriented diagonally to a surface of the body at an angle of 5° or greater measured with respect to a normal to the surface of the body and removing some or all of the part of the body exposed to the light beam to form a diagonal opening in the body.
摘要:
In one example, a piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric material, a first conductor on a first part of the piezoelectric material, and a membrane bonded to the first conductor with an adhesive. The first conductor has a root mean square surface roughness of at least 10 nm at the bonding interface with the membrane.
摘要:
A drop detector assembly is provided including an ejection element to eject a fluid drop, a light guide to selectively receive light scattered off of the fluid drop, and a light detector formed in the light guide to detect light received by the light guide.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a semiconductor structure having an integrated passive network and a method for making the same. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate which can be an interposer. The substrate can include a plurality of conductive vias. In various embodiments, the substrate includes a dielectric layer disposed thereon, the dielectric layer having an opening forming a straight hole allowing electrical connection between the passive network and the conductive via. The passive network includes a series of patterned dielectric and conductive layers, forming passive electronic components. In an embodiment, the passive device includes a common resistor coupled to a pair of inductors, each of the inductors coupled to a capacitor. In another embodiment, the passive device includes a resistor and an inductor electrically connected to each other, a bottom surface of the inductor coplanar with a bottom surface of the resistor.
摘要:
An apparatus includes a Micro Electrical Mechanical System (MEMS) having electrical contacts and a MEMS device in electrical communication with the electrical contacts. A lid is oriented over the MEMS device and not the electrical contacts. The lid has a base region and a top region, the base region being wider in dimension than the top region and oriented in closer proximity to the MEMS device than the top region.