Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – Hermetic sealed envelope type
Patent
1994-10-03
2000-10-03
Kincaid, Kristina
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
Hermetic sealed envelope type
257633, 257649, 257650, H05K 506
Patent
active
061276294
ABSTRACT:
A microelectronic device is hermetically sealed at the wafer level. A substrate is provided having associated electronics and at least one metal bonding pad. A dielectric layer, such as pyrex glass film, is sputter deposited atop the substrate to form a glass/metal seal. A glass film is thereafter planarized, preferably by chemical-mechanical polishing, to remove surface variations. A cover wafer is thereafter anodically bonded to the dielectric layer/glass film so as to define a sealed cavity for housing and protecting the substrate electronics. The resultant microelectronic device is packaged in its own hermetically sealed container at the wafer level.
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Haeberle Russell J.
McCarthy Shaun Leaf
Meitzler Allen Henry
Sooriakumar Kathirgamasundaram
Ford Global Technologies Inc.
Kincaid Kristina
Malleck Joseph W.
Ngo Hung V
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