Gold-tin eutectic bonding for hermetic packaging of MEMS devices with vertical feedthroughs

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2014-11-05

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Torunbalci, Mustafa Mert
Demir, Eyup Can
Donmez, Inci
Alper, Said Emre
Akın, Tayfun

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This paper presents a new method for wafer-level hermetic encapsulation of MEMS devices using low-temperature (280 to 300°C) Au-Sn eutectic bonding applied to the recently developed advanced MEMS (A-MEMS) process of the METU-MEMS Research Center, which uses an SOI cap wafer with vertical feedthroughs that does not need any complex via-refill or trench-refill process steps. The Au-Sn eutectic bonding process is achieved at 300°C with a bond pressure of 2 MPa by using a sealing alloy thickness less than 1.5 μm. The package pressure is characterized to be around 250 mTorr, without any getter activation. The remelting temperature of the Au-Sn bonding interface is measured by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis and found to be around 280°C, verifying that the bonding is achieved at the desired eutectic composition (80% Au and 20% Sn), also confirmed by the energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis. The shear strengths of several packages are measured to be above 20 MPa, indicating a mechanically-strong bonding. The robustness of the packages is also tested by subjecting them to high temperature storage at 200°C for 24 hours, and no degradation is observed in the hermeticity of the packages at the end of this period.

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Wafer Level Hermetic Packaging, Au-Sn Eutectic Bonding, Vertical Feedthroughs

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46228

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https://doi.org/10.1109/icsens.2014.6985473

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M. M. Torunbalci, E. C. Demir, I. Donmez, S. E. Alper, and T. Akın, “Gold-tin eutectic bonding for hermetic packaging of MEMS devices with vertical feedthroughs,” 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46228.