Method of fabricating micro-electromechanical systems

Details Method of fabricating micro-electromechanical systems Method of fabricating micro-electromechanical systems

2007-04-17

2007-04-17

Le, Dung A. (Department: 2818)

Semiconductor device manufacturing: process

Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal

C438S050000, C438S372000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10508129

ABSTRACT:
A MEMS incorporating a sensing element and a JFET electrically connected to the sensing element is fabricated by the steps of: forming a first layer of electrically insulating barrier material on a surface of a substrate; patterning the first layer so as to expose a first region of the substrate; doping by ion implantation the first region of the substrate to form a well region of the JFET; forming a second layer of barrier material on the surface of both the first layer and the first region of the substrate; patterning the barrier material so as to expose a part of the first region of the substrate; doping by ion implantation the exposed part of the first region of the substrate to form source and drain contact areas of the JFET; patterning the barrier material so as to expose a second region of the substrate; and doping by ion implantation the second region of the substrate to form gate and substrate contact areas of the JFET in a single implantion step. The monolithic integration of the JFET with the MEMS enables the bond wires for interconnecting the sensing element and the associated sensing electronic circuitry to be provided only after the buffering stage of such circuitry. This means that the bond wires interconnecting the buffering stage and the remainder of the circuitry are connected to a low impedance node which is less sensitive to noise and parasitic capacitive loading. Thus greater detection accuracy can be achieved by virtue of the fact that the parasitic capacitances are reduced to a minimum.

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