Design and fabrication of condenser microphone using wafer transfer and micro-electroplating technique

Autor: Ray-Hua Horng, Ming-Li Ke, Zhen-Zhun Shu, Ji-Liang Chen, Guan-Wei Chen, Chao-Chih Chang, Chung-Ching Lai, Jean-Yih Tsai
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: 2008 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS.
DOI: 10.1109/dtip.2008.4753025
Popis: A novel fabrication process, which uses wafer transfer and micro-electroplating technique, has been proposed and tested. In this paper, the effects of the diaphragm thickness and stress, the air-gap thickness, and the area ratio of acoustic holes to backplate on the sensitivity of the condenser microphone have been demonstrated since the performance of the microphone depends on these parameters. The microphone diaphragm has been designed with a diameter and thickness of 1.9 mm and 0.6 $\mu$m, respectively, an air-gap thickness of 10 $\mu$m, and a 24% area ratio of acoustic holes to backplate. To obtain a lower initial stress, the material used for the diaphragm is polyimide. The measured sensitivities of the microphone at the bias voltages of 24 V and 12 V are -45.3 and -50.2 dB/Pa (at 1 kHz), respectively. The fabricated microphone shows a flat frequency response extending to 20 kHz.
Comment: Submitted on behalf of EDA Publishing Association (http://irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/16838)
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