• DocumentCode
    1878563
  • Title

    Fabrication Ofrigid Backplate Condensermicrophone Using Drie and Wafer Bonding Technology

  • Author

    Lee, Kwang-Cheol ; Kwon, Hyu-sang

  • Author_Institution
    Electronic Devices Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Korea
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    2006
  • Firstpage
    650
  • Lastpage
    653
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a novel MEMS condenser microphone with rigid backplate to enhance acoustic characteristics. The MEMS condenser microphone consists of membrane and backplate chips which are bonded together by gold-tin (Au/Sn) eutectic solder bonding. The 2 mm × 2 mm, 150-μm-thick backplate is fabricated using silicon deep reactive ion etching from backplate wafer, where 50~60-μm radius cylindrical acoustic holes are also fabricated to reduce air damping. The microphone sensitivity is 39.8 μV/Pa (-88 dB re. 1 V/Pa) at 1 kHz and 28 V polarization voltage. The microphone shows flat frequency response within 2 dB between 20 Hz and 5 kHz.
  • Keywords
    Biomembranes; Damping; Etching; Fabrication; Gold; Micromechanical devices; Microphones; Silicon; Tin; Wafer bonding;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2006. MEMS 2006 Istanbul. 19th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul, Turkey
  • ISSN
    1084-6999
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9475-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MEMSYS.2006.1627883
  • Filename
    1627883