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Thin MEMS microphone based on package-integrated fabrication process
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- Issue Date
- 2012-07
- Citation
- Electronics Letters, v.48, no.14, pp.866-867
- ISSN
- 0013-5194
- Publisher
- IET
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- A thin capacitive-type MEMS acoustic sensor fabricated using a fully package-integrated process is presented. This sensor has a very slim thickness of 150m due to the elimination of the complicated back-side alignment process which requires a thickness of more than 400m to prevent the substrate from breaking down. In addition, a structure-based equivalent circuit modelling was performed to evaluate the characteristics of the proposed microphone. The measured initial gap was 2.8m, which resulted in an intrinsic capacitance of 0.89 pF and the natural frequency was 83kHz. The sensor has an open-circuit sensitivity of -47.7 dBV/Pa at 1kHz with 10.4 V. The modelled sensitivity shows good agreement with the measured sensitivity. © 2012 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
- KSP Keywords
- Acoustic Sensor, Capacitive-type, Equivalent circuit modelling, Initial gap, MEMS Microphone, Natural frequency, Open circuit, fabrication process, integrated process, intrinsic capacitance, structure-based