CN102122935B - Micro-mechanical resonator having submicron clearances and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents

Micro-mechanical resonator having submicron clearances and manufacturing method thereof Download PDF

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CN102122935B
CN102122935B CN 201110059554 CN201110059554A CN102122935B CN 102122935 B CN102122935 B CN 102122935B CN 201110059554 CN201110059554 CN 201110059554 CN 201110059554 A CN201110059554 A CN 201110059554A CN 102122935 B CN102122935 B CN 102122935B
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本发明涉及一种具有亚微米间隙的微机械谐振器及制作方法,其特征在于谐振器是由盖板硅片、结构硅片和衬底硅片三层硅片键合组成的“三明治”结构。结构硅片用来制作谐振器的振子,盖板硅片和衬底硅片分别用来制作驱动和检测的固定电极。谐振器振子与固定电极间的亚微米间隙是通过圆片级对准键合工艺形成的,间隙大小不受光刻工艺限制,而是由盖板硅片或者衬底硅片上的电绝缘介质层的厚度决定的。本发明提出的微机械谐振器的制作方法,利用圆片级对准键合形成亚微米间隙,在制作完器件结构的同时实现了对器件的真空密封,不但降低了器件设计和制作的难度,提升了器件性能和成品率,而且减小了器件尺寸,降低了成本。

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The invention relates to a micromechanical resonator with a submicron gap and a manufacturing method, which is characterized in that the resonator is a "sandwich" structure composed of three layers of silicon chips bonded with a cover silicon chip, a structure silicon chip and a substrate silicon chip . The structural silicon chip is used to make the vibrator of the resonator, and the cover silicon chip and the substrate silicon chip are used to make the fixed electrodes for driving and detection respectively. The sub-micron gap between the resonator vibrator and the fixed electrode is formed by the wafer-level alignment bonding process. The size of the gap is not limited by the photolithography process, but by the electrical insulating medium on the cover silicon wafer or the substrate silicon wafer. depends on the thickness of the layer. The manufacturing method of the micromechanical resonator proposed by the present invention uses wafer-level alignment bonding to form a submicron gap, and realizes the vacuum sealing of the device while the device structure is manufactured, which not only reduces the difficulty of device design and manufacture, The performance and yield of the device are improved, and the size of the device is reduced to reduce the cost.

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A kind of have sub-micron gap micromechanical resonator and a manufacture method
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of micromechanical resonator and manufacture method with sub-micron gap, belong to micromechanical resonator processing and Micrometer-Nanometer Processing Technology field.
Background technology
Clock chip, as the time base source in Circuits System, has important effect in Circuits System.Traditional clock chip generally adopts quartz crystal oscillator to produce signal waveform as resonator.But quartz crystal oscillator is generally to adopt cutting technique to make, so its volume is difficult to reduce, thereby hindered the microminiaturization of Circuits System.In addition, quartz crystal oscillator also can't with the integrated making of Circuits System, improved cost of manufacture.In recent years, due to the development of micro-processing technology, the MEMS micromechanical resonator obtains very large development.The MEMS resonator has that size is little, power consumption is little, cost is low, with CMOS IC (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Integrated Circuit, complementary mos integrated circuit) the technique advantage such as compatible mutually, demand in fields such as wireless telecommunications grows with each passing day, and will become the substitute of crystal resonator.
The key property parameter of micromechanical resonator has: resonance frequency, quality factor (Q), frequency temperature are floated etc.Wherein, the Q value of resonator is one of most important parameter of reaction resonator characteristics, and it can be expressed as:
1 Q = 1 Q air + 1 Q anchor + 1 Q TED + 1 Q others , - - - ( 1 )
Wherein Q is the total quality factor size of resonator, Q airthe energy loss mechanism caused by air damping, Q anchorthe energy loss mechanism caused by anchor point, Q tEDthe thermoelasticity energy loss mechanism of material, Q othersthe energy loss mechanism that means other.In these four kinds of energy loss mechanism, latter three kinds is to be caused by factors such as the material of making resonator and structural designs thereof, and the first to be vacuum degree by the resonator works environment cause.Resonator is carried out to vacuum seal, just can greatly reduce the loose consumption of energy caused due to air damping, thereby greatly improve the Q value (Khine of resonator, L and M Palaniapan, High-Q bulk-mode SOI square resonators with straight-beam anchors.Journal ofMicromechanics and Microengineering, 2009.19 (1): p.015017).
The driving of micromechanical resonator and detection principle mainly contain: electrostatic force conversion, piezoelectric effect, piezoresistive effect, thermoelectric effect etc.Condenser type drive and detection method be by electrostatic force to external world signal processed, the advantage such as low in energy consumption owing to having, structure fabrication is simple, and technique is simple, condenser type drives and detects sensing and the braking that is widely used in micro-structural.Electrostatic force in condenser type driving and detection method can be meaned by (2) formula:
F = ϵA d - - - ( 2 )
Wherein F is the electrostatic force size, and ε is electric medium constant, and A is the polar plate area size, and d is spacing (C G Mattsson, K.B., the G between two-plate
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h-E Nilsson and H Martin, Thermal simulation and design optimization of a thermopile infrared detector with an SU-8membrane.Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2009.19 (5): p.055016.).From (2) formula, can find out, if need to improve electrostatic force to improve the sensitivity of device, effective method is exactly the gap reduced between pole plate, because electrostatic force and pole plate gap are the relations of being inversely proportional to.
Usually the capacitance type micro mechanical resonator comprises resonance oscillator, fixedly elastic construction, drive electrode and detecting electrode four part-structures of oscillator.Traditional MEMS resonator, be all generally first to make the resonator structure, then makes the cover plate silicon chip, finally resonator is encapsulated through row, and its complex process, difficulty of processing is large.Gap between traditional resonator structure is generally by lithographic definition, if reduce gap, just needs to improve the precision of photoetching, is difficult to produce the sub-micron interstitial structure.In addition, also have and utilize oxidation polysilicon or the large gap of monocrystalline silicon thin film to make the method in sub-micron gap, but it still needs photoetching process to define a large interstitial structure, then utilize thermal oxidation technology in film interstital growth oxide layer, large gap is converted into to the sub-micron interstitial structure, this method complex manufacturing technology, cost of manufacture is high.
Summary of the invention
Problem for existing in traditional micromechanical resonator processing, the object of the invention is to propose a kind of have sub-micron gap micromechanical resonator and manufacture method.The present invention is intended to utilize simple technique and cheap cost, realizes the making in micromechanical resonator sub-micron gap and the vacuum seal of device.The present invention the most significantly is characterised in that it is to utilize the wafer level vacuum to aim at bonding to form resonator sub-micron gap, when having made resonator structure, realizes the vacuum seal to resonator.The size in sub-micron gap is determined by the thickness of the electric insulating medium layer on cover plate silicon chip or silicon substrate.
Micromechanical resonator of the present invention comprises silicon substrate, structure silicon chip, cover plate silicon chip, the resonance oscillator, the fixing elastic construction of oscillator, the electric insulating medium layer between structure silicon chip and silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip, metal pad, electrode is drawn through hole, and basic functional principle is as shown in Figure 1.Its resonance oscillator can be circular columns or square column, can be also circular slab or square plate.The both sides, top and bottom of resonance oscillator are respectively fixed drive electrode and fixed test electrode, while applying alternating voltage like this between fixed drive electrode and resonance oscillator, the alternation electrostatic force produced by alternating voltage can encourage oscillator to enter the mode of resonance of appointment, then by detecting the variation of output electrode end output current, just resonator signal can be exported.The elastic construction that is used for fixing the resonance oscillator is elastic plate or spring beam; The elastic construction that is used for fixing the resonance oscillator is positioned in the middle of the resonance oscillator, is positioned at resonance oscillator one end or is positioned at resonance oscillator two ends.
The resonator that the present invention proposes is the sandwich structure together formed by silicon substrate, structure silicon chip and three layers of wafer bonding of cover plate silicon chip, the back side of the front of silicon substrate and structure silicon chip, the back side of the front of structure silicon chip and cover plate silicon chip is combined by the wafer level alignment keys respectively.The sub-micron gap of resonator is to aim at bonding formation by structure silicon chip and the silicon substrate with submicron order degree of depth curved cavity or cover plate silicon chip being carried out to wafer level.The structure silicon chip is between silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip, silicon substrate front and cover plate silicon chip back side respectively have curved cavity, these two cavitys form a vacuum tightness chamber, in the vacuum tightness chamber that fixedly elastic construction of resonance oscillator forms the unsettled cavity on silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip of resonance oscillator.
With the structure of general micromechanical resonator, compare:
The micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes is made by wafer level vacuum aligning bonding by silicon substrate, structure silicon chip and three layers of silicon chip of cover plate silicon chip;
The silicon substrate of the micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes and cover plate silicon chip be not only for resonator provides the vacuum tightness chamber, and also being used as is the fixed electrode of driving and detection of device simultaneously;
There is curved cavity on the silicon substrate of the micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes and cover plate silicon chip;
There is electrode on the cover plate silicon chip of the micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes and draw through hole.
With general micromechanical resonator manufacture method, compare:
The manufacture method of the micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes, when having made device architecture, completed the wafer-level vacuum package of device, without the vacuum encapsulation process of follow-up complexity, reduced the complexity of design and processing, improved device performance.
The micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes utilizes bonding technology to make the device gap, does not have the structure existed in the structure dispose procedure problems such as movable structure that easily are adhered, need protection, and has simplified processing technology, has improved rate of finished products.
The present invention utilizes wafer level to aim at bonding technology and forms the sub-micron gap, and not limited by photoetching technique, reduces difficulty, complexity and the cost of making the sub-micron gap;
The manufacture method proposed due to the present invention, when having made the resonator structure, has just been carried out wafer level vacuum seal by device, has reduced the complexity that designs and process; Adopt wafer level to aim at bonding technology and form the sub-micron gap, reduced difficulty and the complexity of making the sub-micron gap; Device has been carried out to wafer-level vacuum package, not only improved device performance, reduced cost, and be applicable to batch production.
Realize that technical scheme of the present invention is:
(1) to the structure silicon chip carry out oxidation, photoetching and graphical after, utilize deep reaction ion etching technique to make resonator oscillator the latter half structure;
(2) at the positive electric insulating medium layer that deposits one deck submicron thickness of silicon substrate, and the electric insulating medium layer is carried out to etching, form curved cavity;
(3) silicon substrate that structure silicon chip step (1) obtained obtains with step (2) carries out the wafer level vacuum and aims at bonding, forms the sub-micron gap between resonance oscillator the latter half structure and fixed electrode;
(4) the structure silicon chip that oxidation step (3) obtains, and oxide layer is carried out to photoetching and etching, utilize deep reaction ion etching technique to produce the first half structure of resonator oscillator;
(5) deposit the electric insulating medium layer of one deck submicron thickness at the cover plate silicon chip back side, and the electric insulating medium layer is carried out to etching, form curved cavity;
(6) the cover plate silicon chip that structure silicon chip step (4) obtained obtains with step (5) carries out the wafer level vacuum and aims at bonding, forms the sub-micron gap between resonance oscillator the first half structure and fixed electrode; The structure silicon chip is between silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip;
(7) etch electrode at the cover plate front side of silicon wafer and draw through hole, erode the electric insulating medium layer that electrode is drawn the lead to the hole site place;
(8), at cover plate front side of silicon wafer and silicon substrate backside deposition metal level, and by metallic layer graphic, make metal pad.
In a word, the present invention relates to a kind of micromechanical resonator and manufacture method with sub-micron gap, it is characterized in that resonator forms " sandwich " structure by cover plate silicon chip, structure silicon chip and three layers of wafer bonding of silicon substrate.The structure silicon chip is used for making the oscillator of resonator, and cover plate silicon chip and silicon substrate are used for respectively making the fixed electrode that drives and detect.Sub-micron gap between resonator oscillator and fixed electrode is aimed at bonding technology by wafer level and is formed, and gap length is not limited by photoetching process, but determined by the thickness of the electric insulating medium layer on cover plate silicon chip or silicon substrate.Described electric insulating medium layer is silicon nitride or silica, but is not only limited to this; The scolder of the bonding between described structure silicon chip and silicon substrate, structure silicon chip and cover plate silicon chip is metal, polymer or glass paste, also is not only limited to this.The manufacture method of the micromechanical resonator that the present invention proposes, utilize wafer level to aim at bonding and form the sub-micron gap, realized the wafer level vacuum seal to device when having made device architecture, not only reduced the difficulty of device designing and making, device performance and rate of finished products have been promoted, and reduced device size, reduced cost.And can on the cover plate silicon chip, make the cmos circuit part, and then carry out the solder bonding with the structure silicon chip, realize the integrated of resonator and cmos circuit.
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Fig. 1-1st, circular columns micromechanical resonator operation principle schematic diagram, (a) be resonator overall structure cutaway view, wherein (i) unsettled oscillator elastic construction is positioned at the oscillator middle part, (ii) unsettled oscillator elastic construction is positioned at position, oscillator top, and (iii) unsettled oscillator elastic construction is positioned at the oscillator two ends; (b) be the oscillator structure vertical view.
Fig. 1-2 is square plate micromechanical resonator operation principle schematic diagram, (a) is cutaway view, is (b) vertical view.
Fig. 2 is the concrete technology flow process of embodiment 1.
Fig. 2-1: the structure silicon chip after oxidation is carried out to photoetching and etching.
Fig. 2-2: utilize deep reaction ion etching technique to etch the latter half structure of resonator oscillator.
Fig. 2-3: at the electric insulating medium layer of the positive deposition of silicon substrate one deck submicron thickness, and it is graphical.
Fig. 2-4: structure silicon chip and silicon substrate are carried out to the wafer level vacuum and aim at bonding.
Fig. 2-5: thermal oxidation structure silicon chip, and its frontside oxide layer is carried out to photoetching and graphical.
Fig. 2-6: utilize deep reaction ion etching technique to etch the first half structure of resonator oscillator.
Fig. 2-7: at the electric insulating medium layer of cover plate silicon chip back side deposition one deck submicron thickness, and it is graphical.
Fig. 2-8: structure silicon chip and cover plate silicon chip are carried out to wafer level vacuum aligning bonding.
Fig. 2-9: make electrode and draw through hole on the cover plate silicon chip.
Fig. 2-10: depositing metal layers, make metal pad.
Fig. 3 is the resulting devices structure of embodiment 2.
Fig. 4 is the concrete technology flow process of embodiment 3.
Fig. 4-1: at the electric insulating medium layer of the positive deposition of silicon substrate one deck submicron thickness, and it is graphical.
Fig. 4-2: structure silicon chip and silicon substrate are carried out to wafer level aligning bonding, and the structure wafer thinning is arrived to the thickness needed.
Fig. 4-3: utilize deep reaction ion etching technique to etch the resonator oscillator structure.
Fig. 4-4: at the electric insulating medium layer of cover plate front side of silicon wafer deposition one deck submicron thickness, and it is graphical.
Fig. 4-5: structure silicon chip and cover plate silicon chip are carried out to wafer level vacuum aligning bonding.
Fig. 4-6: make electrode and draw through hole on the cover plate silicon chip.
Fig. 4-7: depositing metal layers, make metal pad.
Fig. 5 is embodiment 4 resulting devices structures.
Fig. 6 is embodiment 5 concrete technology flow processs.
Fig. 6-1: silicon substrate front etch or the solder etched;
Fig. 6-2: form curved cavity;
Fig. 6-3: the sub-micron gap formed between resonance oscillator Lower Half structure and fixed electrode;
Fig. 6-4: depositing metal layers, produce metal pad.
Fig. 7 is embodiment 6 resulting devices structures.
In figure, the implication of each digitized representation is:
1 silicon substrate; 2 structure silicon chips; 3 cover plate silicon chips; 4 electrodes are drawn through hole; 5 silica; 6 resonance oscillators; 7 unsettled oscillator structures; 11 electric insulating medium layers; 12 sub-micron gaps; 13 metal pads; 14 bonding solder layers; 15 bonding solder; The 16CMOS circuit; 21 front side of silicon wafers; 22 silicon chip back sides.
Take the resulting devices structure as reference, and structure silicon chip, silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip one side upward are front side of silicon wafer, and one side down is silicon chip back side.As Fig. 2-10 show.
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Embodiment 1
Structure silicon chip, silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip are all selected low resistance silicon chip, and resistivity is 0.01-1 Ω cm.The structure silicon chip is used for making the resonance oscillator structure, and the resonance oscillator is the movable electrode of resonator capacitor driving and capacitance detecting.The resonance oscillator can be circular columns, can be also square column.Fixedly the elastic construction of oscillator can be elastic plate, can be also spring beam.Silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip are used for respectively forming the fixed electrode of resonator capacitor driving and capacitance detecting.The present embodiment adopts wafer level silicon silicon vacuum to aim at bonding, and being deposited on silicon substrate electric insulating medium layer positive and the cover plate silicon chip back side can be silica, can be also silicon nitride.Sub-micron gap length scope between fixed electrode and resonance oscillator is 0.05-2 μ m.Main technological steps comprises:
(1) oxidation structure silicon chip, carry out photoetching and etching to structure silicon chip back side silica.See Fig. 2-1.
(2) etch the latter half structure of resonator oscillator at the structure silicon chip back side.See Fig. 2-2.
(3) at the positive electric insulating medium layer that deposits one deck submicron thickness of silicon substrate, and this electric insulating medium layer is carried out to photoetching and etching formation curved cavity.See Fig. 2-3.
(4) erode the silica on the structure silicon chip that step (2) obtains, then the silicon substrate front its back side obtained with step (3) is carried out the wafer level vacuum and is aimed at bonding, forms the sub-micron gap between resonance oscillator the latter half structure and fixed electrode.See Fig. 2-4.
(5) the structure silicon chip that oxidation step (4) obtains, and its frontside oxide layer is carried out to photoetching and etching.See Fig. 2-5.
(6) etch the first half structure of resonator oscillator at the structure front side of silicon wafer.See Fig. 2-6.
(7) deposit the electric insulating medium layer of one deck submicron thickness at the cover plate silicon chip back side, and this electric insulating medium layer is carried out to photoetching and etching formation curved cavity.See Fig. 2-7.
(8) erode the oxide layer on the structure silicon chip that step (6) obtains, its positive cover plate silicon chip back side obtained with step (7) is carried out to the wafer level vacuum and aim at bonding, form the sub-micron gap between resonator oscillator the first half structure and fixed electrode.See Fig. 2-8.
(9) make electrode at the cover plate front side of silicon wafer and draw through hole, and erode the electric insulating medium layer that electrode is drawn the lead to the hole site place.See Fig. 2-9.
(10) at cover plate front side of silicon wafer and silicon substrate backside deposition metal level, and metal level is carried out graphically, make metal pad.See Fig. 2-10.
Embodiment 2
The present embodiment adopts wafer level scolder vacuum to aim at bonding, and the bonding scolder can be metal, polymer, can be also glass paste.
Its concrete implementation step part is identical with embodiment 1, the main distinction is: first, in embodiment 1 step (3) and step (7), at first deposit one deck electric insulating medium layer on silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip, on the electric insulating medium layer, deposit or spin coating one deck solder layer again, and it is carried out to photoetching, then respectively solder layer and electric insulating medium layer are carried out to etching or corrosion; Second, in embodiment 1 step (4) and step (8), oxide layer on the corrosion structure silicon chip, deposition or spin coating one deck solder layer on the structure silicon chip, and it is carried out to photoetching and etching, the silicon chip finally obtained with step (3) in embodiment 1 and step (7) respectively carries out wafer level scolder vacuum and aims at bonding.All the other processing steps are constant.The resulting devices geometric configuration as shown in Figure 3.
Embodiment 3
The resonance oscillator can be circular slab, can be also square plate.Fixedly the structure of oscillator is spring beam.Silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip are used for respectively forming the fixed electrode of resonator capacitor driving and capacitance detecting.Sub-micron gap length scope between fixed electrode and resonance oscillator is 0.05 μ m-2 μ m.Main technological steps comprises:
(1) at the positive electric insulating medium layer that deposits one deck submicron thickness of silicon substrate, and this electric insulating medium layer is carried out to photoetching and the graphical curved cavity that forms.See Fig. 4-1.
(2) utilize the wafer level vacuum to aim at bonding technology, the front of the silicon substrate that structure silicon chip back side and step (1) are obtained is bonded together, and, by the method attenuate structure front side of silicon wafer of physics attenuate or chemical reduction, the structure wafer thinning is arrived to needed thickness.See Fig. 4-2.
(3) carry out photoetching and graphical at the structure front side of silicon wafer, etch resonator structure.See Fig. 4-3.
(4) deposit the electric insulating medium layer of one deck submicron thickness at the cover plate silicon chip back side, and this electric insulating medium layer is carried out to photoetching and the graphical curved cavity that forms.See Fig. 4-4.
(5) utilize the wafer level vacuum to aim at bonding technology, the back side of the cover plate silicon chip that the front of the structure silicon chip that step (3) is obtained and step (4) obtain is bonded together.See Fig. 4-5.
(6) make electrode at the cover plate front side of silicon wafer and draw through hole, and erode the electric insulating medium layer that electrode is drawn the lead to the hole site place.See Fig. 4-6.
(7) at cover plate front side of silicon wafer and silicon substrate backside deposition metal level, and metal level is carried out graphically, make metal pad.See Fig. 4-7.
Embodiment 4
Its concrete implementation step part is identical with embodiment 1; the main distinction is: in embodiment 1 step (1) and step (5); before etching is made device architecture; device architecture is partly protected; then by device architecture on the structure silicon chip, outer other parts are carried out whole attenuate, make device architecture part projective structure silicon chip surface.Other processing step is constant.The resulting devices geometric configuration as shown in Figure 5.
Embodiment 5
The present embodiment adopts wafer level scolder vacuum to aim at bonding, and the bonding scolder can be metal, polymer, can be also glass paste.Can be by controlling the degree of depth of solder in the present embodiment, make scolder fill full weld material groove fully and without overflowing, thereby guarantee that the structure silicon chip surface contacts fully with silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip surface.Silicon substrate and cover plate silicon chip are used for respectively forming the fixed electrode of resonator capacitor driving and capacitance detecting.Sub-micron gap length scope between fixed electrode and resonance oscillator is 0.05 μ m-2 μ m.Main technological steps comprises:
Main technological steps comprises:
(1) etch the latter half structure of resonator oscillator at the structure silicon chip back side.
(2) at the silicon substrate front etch or etch the bonding solder.See Fig. 6-1.
(3) at the positive electric insulating medium layer that deposits one deck submicron thickness of silicon substrate, and this electric insulating medium layer is carried out to photoetching and etching formation curved cavity.See Fig. 6-2.
(4) the silicon substrate front that structure silicon chip back side step (1) obtained obtains with step (3) is carried out wafer level scolder vacuum and is aimed at bonding, forms the sub-micron gap between resonance oscillator the latter half structure and fixed electrode.See Fig. 6-3.
(5) the structure front side of silicon wafer obtained in step (4) etches the first half structure of resonator oscillator.
(6) corrosion or etch the bonding solder on the cover plate silicon chip back side.
(7) deposit the electric insulating medium layer of one deck submicron thickness at the cover plate silicon chip back side, and this electric insulating medium layer is carried out to photoetching and etching formation curved cavity.
(8) the cover plate silicon chip back side that structure front side of silicon wafer step (5) obtained obtains with step (7) carries out wafer level scolder vacuum and aims at bonding, forms the sub-micron gap between resonator oscillator the first half structure and fixed electrode.
(9) make electrode at the cover plate front side of silicon wafer and draw through hole, and erode the electric insulating medium layer that electrode is drawn the lead to the hole site place.
(10) at cover plate front side of silicon wafer and silicon substrate backside deposition metal level, and metal level is carried out graphically, make metal pad.See Fig. 6-4.
Embodiment 6
The present embodiment adopts wafer-level low-temperature scolder bonding, and the bonding scolder can be metal, polymer, can be also glass paste.
Its concrete implementation step part is identical with embodiment 5, the main distinction is: first, in embodiment 5 steps (8), before vacuum is aimed at bonding, first by CMOS technique, on the cover plate silicon chip, produce cmos circuit, and then utilize the solder bonding technology that itself and structure silicon chip are carried out to wafer-level low-temperature scolder bonding.The second, in embodiment 5 steps (10), after making metal pad, utilize routing technique to realize the pin interconnection of resonator and cmos circuit.Other processing step is constant.The resulting devices geometric configuration as shown in Figure 7.
Can find out that by the introduction of above-described embodiment the method in the sub-micron gap that the present invention mentions has following several:
1) deposit respectively the electric insulating medium layer of one deck submicron thickness on silicon substrate front and cover plate silicon chip back side, the electric insulating medium layer that etches away respectively resonance oscillator corresponding position forms curved cavity, then silicon substrate, cover plate silicon chip is carried out to wafer level with the structure silicon chip respectively and aims at the sub-micron gap between bonding formation resonance oscillator and fixed electrode.The sub-micron gap length is exactly the power on thickness of insulating medium layer of silicon substrate or cover plate silicon chip;
2) deposit respectively electric insulating medium layer and the solder layer of one deck submicron thickness on silicon substrate front and cover plate silicon chip back side, the insulating medium layer and the solder layer that erode respectively resonance oscillator corresponding position form curved cavity, then, silicon substrate, cover plate silicon chip are carried out to the wafer level scolder with the structure silicon chip respectively and aim at the sub-micron gap between bonding formation resonance oscillator and fixed electrode; Total the thickness of insulating medium layer and solder layer be exactly the size silicon substrate in sub-micron gap or cover plate silicon chip power on.
3) deposit respectively one deck electric insulating medium layer on silicon substrate front and cover plate silicon chip back side, the electric insulating medium layer that etches away respectively resonance oscillator corresponding position forms curved cavity.After part outside structure silicon chip resonance oscillator structure is carried out to the double-sided overall attenuate, silicon substrate, cover plate silicon chip are carried out to wafer level with the structure silicon chip respectively and aim at bonding formation sub-micron gap.The size in sub-micron gap is exactly that the power on thickness of insulating medium layer of silicon substrate or cover plate silicon chip deducts the difference of resonance oscillator projective structure silicon chip level.
4) deposit respectively the electric insulating medium layer of one deck submicron thickness on silicon substrate front and cover plate silicon chip back side, the electric insulating medium layer that etches away respectively resonance oscillator corresponding position forms curved cavity.Then and cover plate silicon chip back side positive at silicon substrate etches for applying the groove of bonding scolder, then silicon substrate, cover plate silicon chip carried out to the wafer level scolder with the structure silicon chip respectively and aims at bonding formation sub-micron gap.The bonding scolder should fill solder fully and nothing is overflowed.The size in sub-micron gap is exactly the power on thickness of insulating medium layer of silicon substrate or cover plate silicon chip.

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1.一种具有亚微米间隙的微机械谐振器制作方法,其特征在于利用圆片级对准键合形成亚微米间隙,在制作完谐振器器件结构的同时,实现了对器件的圆片级真空封装,具体工艺步骤是:1. A method for manufacturing a micromechanical resonator with a submicron gap, characterized in that it uses wafer-level alignment bonding to form a sub-micron gap, and realizes the wafer-level alignment of the device while the resonator device structure is finished. Vacuum packaging, the specific process steps are: 1)对结构硅片进行氧化、光刻及图形化后,利用深反应离子刻蚀工艺制作谐振振子下半部分结构;1) After oxidation, photolithography and patterning of the structural silicon wafer, the structure of the lower half of the resonator is fabricated using a deep reactive ion etching process; 2)在衬底硅片正面沉积一层亚微米厚度的电绝缘介质层,并对电绝缘介质层进行刻蚀,形成凹腔结构;2) Depositing a layer of submicron-thick electrical insulating dielectric layer on the front surface of the substrate silicon wafer, and etching the electrical insulating dielectric layer to form a cavity structure; 3)将步骤(1)得到的结构硅片与步骤(2)得到的衬底硅片进行圆片级真空对准键合,形成谐振振子下半部分结构与固定电极间的亚微米间隙;3) performing wafer-level vacuum alignment bonding on the structural silicon wafer obtained in step (1) and the substrate silicon wafer obtained in step (2), to form a submicron gap between the lower half structure of the resonator and the fixed electrode; 4)氧化步骤(3)得到的结构硅片,并对氧化层进行光刻及刻蚀,利用深反应离子刻蚀工艺制作出谐振振子的上半部分结构;4) oxidizing the structural silicon wafer obtained in step (3), and performing photolithography and etching on the oxide layer, and using a deep reactive ion etching process to produce the upper half structure of the resonant oscillator; 5)在盖板硅片背面沉积一层亚微米厚度的电绝缘介质层,并对电绝缘介质层进行刻蚀,形成凹腔结构;5) Depositing a submicron-thick electrical insulating dielectric layer on the back of the cover silicon wafer, and etching the electrical insulating dielectric layer to form a cavity structure; 6)将步骤(4)得到的结构硅片与步骤(5)得到的盖板硅片进行圆片级真空对准键合,形成谐振振子上半部分结构与固定电极间的亚微米间隙;结构硅片位于衬底硅片与盖板硅片之间;6) Carry out wafer-level vacuum alignment bonding of the structural silicon wafer obtained in step (4) and the cover silicon wafer obtained in step (5) to form a submicron gap between the upper half structure of the resonator and the fixed electrode; The silicon wafer is located between the substrate silicon wafer and the cover silicon wafer; 7)在盖板硅片正面刻蚀出电极引出通孔,腐蚀掉电极引出通孔位置处的电绝缘介质层;7) Etching the electrode lead-out through hole on the front side of the silicon chip of the cover plate, and etching away the electrical insulating medium layer at the position of the electrode lead out through hole; 8)在盖板硅片正面和衬底硅片背面沉积金属层,并将金属层图形化,制作金属焊盘;8) Depositing a metal layer on the front of the cover silicon wafer and the back of the substrate silicon wafer, and patterning the metal layer to make a metal pad; 制作完谐振器器件结构的同时,实现了对器件的圆片级真空封装。While the structure of the resonator device is manufactured, the wafer-level vacuum packaging of the device is realized. 2.根据权利要求1所述的方法,其特征在于制作亚微米间隙的方法有以下四种之一:2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that there are one of the following four methods for making submicron gaps: 1)在衬底硅片正面和盖板硅片背面上分别沉积一层亚微米厚度的电绝缘介质层,分别刻蚀掉谐振振子相应位置处的电绝缘介质层形成凹腔结构,然后将衬底硅片、盖板硅片分别与结构硅片进行圆片级对准键合形成谐振振子与固定电极间的亚微米间隙;亚微米间隙大小就是衬底硅片或者盖板硅片上电绝缘介质层的厚度;1) Deposit a submicron-thick electrical insulating dielectric layer on the front of the substrate silicon wafer and the back of the cover silicon wafer, etch away the electrical insulating dielectric layer at the corresponding position of the resonator respectively to form a cavity structure, and then place the substrate The bottom silicon wafer and the cover silicon wafer are aligned and bonded with the structural silicon wafer respectively to form a sub-micron gap between the resonator and the fixed electrode; the size of the sub-micron gap is the electrical insulation on the substrate silicon wafer or the cover silicon wafer. The thickness of the dielectric layer; 2)在衬底硅片正面和盖板硅片背面上分别沉积一层亚微米厚度的电绝缘介质层和焊料层,分别腐蚀掉谐振振子相应位置处的绝缘介质层和焊料层形成凹腔结构,然后,将衬底硅片、盖板硅片分别与结构硅片进行圆片级焊料对准键合形成谐振振子与固定电极间的亚微米间隙;亚微米间隙的大小就是衬底硅片或者盖板硅片上电绝缘介质层和焊料层总的厚度;2) Deposit a layer of submicron-thick electrical insulating medium layer and solder layer on the front side of the substrate silicon wafer and the back side of the cover plate silicon wafer, etch away the insulating medium layer and solder layer at the corresponding positions of the resonator respectively to form a cavity structure , and then, the substrate silicon wafer, the cover silicon wafer and the structural silicon wafer are respectively aligned and bonded with wafer-level solder to form a submicron gap between the resonator and the fixed electrode; the size of the submicron gap is the substrate silicon wafer or The total thickness of the electrical insulating dielectric layer and the solder layer on the cover silicon wafer; 3)在衬底硅片正面和盖板硅片背面上分别沉积一层电绝缘介质层,分别刻蚀掉谐振振子相应位置处的电绝缘介质层形成凹腔结构;对结构硅片谐振振子结构之外的部分进行双面整体减薄后,将衬底硅片、盖板硅片分别与结构硅片进行圆片级对准键合形成亚微米间隙;亚微米间隙的大小就是衬底硅片或者盖板硅片上电绝缘介质层的厚度减去谐振振子凸出结构硅片平面高度的差值;3) Deposit a layer of electrically insulating dielectric layer on the front of the substrate silicon wafer and the back of the cover silicon wafer respectively, and etch away the electrically insulating dielectric layer at the corresponding position of the resonator respectively to form a cavity structure; for the structural silicon resonator structure After thinning the other parts on both sides, the substrate silicon wafer and the cover silicon wafer are respectively aligned and bonded with the structural silicon wafer to form a sub-micron gap; the size of the sub-micron gap is the size of the substrate silicon wafer. Or the difference between the thickness of the electrical insulating medium layer on the silicon wafer of the cover minus the plane height of the silicon wafer with the protruding structure of the resonator; 4)在衬底硅片正面和盖板硅片背面上分别沉积一层亚微米厚度的电绝缘介质层,分别刻蚀掉谐振振子相应位置处的电绝缘介质层形成凹腔结构;然后在衬底硅片正面和盖板硅片背面刻蚀出用来涂覆键合焊料的凹槽,接着将衬底硅片、盖板硅片分别与结构硅片进行圆片级焊料对准键合形成亚微米间隙,键合焊料应完全填充焊料凹槽且无溢出;亚微米间隙的大小就是衬底硅片或者盖板硅片上电绝缘介质层的厚度。4) Deposit a submicron-thick electrical insulating dielectric layer on the front side of the substrate silicon wafer and the back surface of the cover silicon wafer, respectively etch away the electrical insulating dielectric layer at the corresponding position of the resonator to form a cavity structure; The front side of the bottom silicon wafer and the back side of the cover silicon wafer are etched with grooves for coating bonding solder, and then the substrate silicon wafer, the cover silicon wafer and the structural silicon wafer are respectively aligned and bonded with wafer-level solder to form For sub-micron gaps, the bonding solder should completely fill the solder groove without overflow; the size of the sub-micron gap is the thickness of the electrical insulating dielectric layer on the substrate silicon wafer or cover silicon wafer. 3.由权利要求1所述的方法制作的具有亚微米间隙的微机械谐振器,其特征在于所述的谐振器包括衬底硅片,结构硅片,盖板硅片,谐振振子,固定振子的弹性结构,结构硅片与衬底硅片及盖板硅片之间的电绝缘介质层,金属焊盘,电极引出通孔,其中:3. The micromechanical resonator with submicron gap made by the method according to claim 1, characterized in that said resonator comprises a substrate silicon wafer, a structural silicon wafer, a cover silicon wafer, a resonant vibrator, and a fixed vibrator The elastic structure, the electrical insulating medium layer between the structural silicon wafer and the substrate silicon wafer and the cover silicon wafer, metal pads, and electrode lead-out through holes, wherein: 1)谐振器是由衬底硅片、结构硅片及盖板硅片三层键合在一起形成的三明治结构,衬底硅片的正面与结构硅片的背面,结构硅片的正面与盖板硅片的背面分别通过圆片级真空对准键合在一起;1) The resonator is a sandwich structure formed by bonding three layers of substrate silicon wafer, structural silicon wafer and cover silicon wafer. The front of the substrate silicon wafer and the back of the structural silicon wafer, the front of the structural silicon wafer and the cover The backsides of the silicon wafers are bonded together through wafer-level vacuum alignment; 2)衬底硅片正面和盖板硅片背面具有凹腔结构;衬底硅片正面的凹腔和盖板硅片背面的凹腔组成一个真空密闭腔室;2) The front side of the substrate silicon wafer and the back side of the cover silicon wafer have a cavity structure; the concave cavity on the front side of the substrate silicon wafer and the concave cavity on the back side of the cover silicon wafer form a vacuum-tight chamber; 3)结构硅片用来制作谐振器的振子,盖板硅片和衬底硅片分别用来制作驱动和检测的固定电极,谐振振子与固定电极间的亚微米间隙是通过圆片级键合工艺形成;3) The structural silicon chip is used to make the vibrator of the resonator. The cover silicon chip and the substrate silicon chip are used to make the fixed electrodes for driving and detection respectively. process formation; 4)固定谐振振子的弹性结构将谐振振子固定并悬空在由盖板硅片与衬底硅片组成的真空密闭腔室中;4) The elastic structure of the fixed resonator fixes and suspends the resonator in the vacuum-tight chamber composed of the cover silicon chip and the substrate silicon chip; 5)电极引出通孔位于谐振器盖板硅片上。5) The electrode lead-out through hole is located on the silicon wafer of the resonator cover plate. 4.根据权利要求3所述的谐振器,其特征在于:4. The resonator according to claim 3, characterized in that: 1)所述的谐振振子为圆形柱、方形柱、圆形板,或者方形板结构;1) The resonant vibrator is a circular column, square column, circular plate, or square plate structure; 2)用来固定谐振振子的弹性结构为弹性板或弹性梁;2) The elastic structure used to fix the resonator is an elastic plate or an elastic beam; 3)用来固定谐振振子的弹性结构位于谐振振子中间,位于谐振振子一端或位于谐振振子两端。3) The elastic structure used to fix the resonant oscillator is located in the middle of the resonant oscillator, at one end of the resonant oscillator or at both ends of the resonant oscillator. 5.根据权利要求3或4所述的谐振器,其特征在于谐振振子的上下两侧分别为驱动固定电极和检测固定电极。5. The resonator according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the upper and lower sides of the resonator are respectively fixed driving electrodes and fixed detecting electrodes. 6.根据权利要求3所述的谐振器,其特征在于所述的组成三明治结构的衬底硅片、结构硅片和盖板硅片选用电阻率为0.01~1Ω·CM的低阻硅片。6. The resonator according to claim 3, characterized in that the substrate silicon wafer, structural silicon wafer and cover silicon wafer forming the sandwich structure are selected from low-resistance silicon wafers with a resistivity of 0.01-1Ω·CM. 7.根据权利要求3所述的谐振器,其特征在于所述固定电极与谐振振子之间的亚微米间隙为0.05~2μm。7. The resonator according to claim 3, characterized in that the submicron gap between the fixed electrode and the resonator is 0.05-2 μm. 8.根据权利要求3或7所述的谐振器,其特征在于所述的间隙大小是盖板硅片或衬底硅片上的电绝缘介质层厚度决定的。8. The resonator according to claim 3 or 7, characterized in that the size of the gap is determined by the thickness of the electrical insulating dielectric layer on the cover silicon wafer or the substrate silicon wafer. 9.根据权利要求3所述的谐振器,其特征在于结构硅片与衬底硅片、结构硅片与盖板硅片之间的电绝缘介质层为氧化硅或氮化硅。9. The resonator according to claim 3, characterized in that the electrically insulating dielectric layer between the structural silicon wafer and the substrate silicon wafer, and between the structural silicon wafer and the cover silicon wafer is silicon oxide or silicon nitride. 10.根据权利要求3所述的谐振器,其特征在于结构硅片与衬底硅片、结构硅片与盖板硅片之间的键合的焊料为金属、聚合物或玻璃浆料。10. The resonator according to claim 3, characterized in that the bonding solder between the structural silicon wafer and the substrate silicon wafer, and between the structural silicon wafer and the cover silicon wafer is metal, polymer or glass paste.
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