Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-28
2008-10-14
Tsai, H. Jey (Department: 2812)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal
C438S050000, C438S052000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07435611
ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus are presented to release stiction between suspended structures and the underlying surface in freestanding MEMS structures. A nanosecond rise time stress wave is launched on the backside of the Si substrate by impinging a short-duration Nd:YAG laser pulse onto a small area. The compressive stress wave propagates through the Si substrate and arrives at the site of several stiction-failed cantilevers on the front Si surface. The compressive stress wave propagates through the cantilevered structures and is reflected into a tensile wave from their free surfaces. The returning tensile wave pries off the interface, releasing the cantilevers.
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O'Banion John P.
The Regents of the University of California
Tsai H. Jey
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