Title :
Thick layers of silicon nitride and other materials for micromechanical structures
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK
Abstract :
Silicon nitride is a very useful hard material in microsystems, especially since the technology has become available to deposit low stress thin films of Si3N4 on substrates at 500 K. This talk will concentrate on applications of Si3N4 films and outline future possibilities
Keywords :
silicon compounds; 500 K; Si3N4; hard material; micromechanical structure; microsystem; silicon nitride thin film;
Conference_Titel :
Extremely Hard Materials for Micromechanics (Digest No: 1997/059), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19970336