THE ADVANCED MEMS (aMEMS) PROCESS FOR FABRICATING WAFER LEVEL VACUUM PACKAGED SOI-MEMS DEVICES WITH EMBEDDED VERTICAL FEEDTHROUGHS

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2015-06-25

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Torunbalci, M. M.
Alper, S. E.
Akın, Tayfun

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This paper presents a novel, inherently simple and low-cost fabrication and hermetic packaging method developed for SOI-MEMS devices, where an SOI wafer is used for the fabrication of MEMS structures as well as vertical feedthroughs, while a glass cap wafer is used for hermetic encapsulation and routing metallization. Glass-to-silicon anodically bonded seals yield a very stable cavity pressure of 150 mTorr after 15 days. The shear strength of the fabricated packages is above 7 MPa. Temperature cycling and ultra-high temperature shock tests results in no degradation in the hermeticity of the packaged chips.

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Advanced MEMS (aMEMS) process, Wafer level hermetic encapsulation, Vertical feedthroughs, Anodic bonding

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53308

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18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS)

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M. M. Torunbalci, S. E. Alper, and T. Akın, “THE ADVANCED MEMS (aMEMS) PROCESS FOR FABRICATING WAFER LEVEL VACUUM PACKAGED SOI-MEMS DEVICES WITH EMBEDDED VERTICAL FEEDTHROUGHS,” presented at the 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), Anchorage, AK, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53308.